From kde-devel  Wed Dec 18 20:27:06 2002
From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:27:06 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Fonts and Loading Time
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=104024438526643

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 15:24, Grant Bartlett wrote:
[...]
|
|  The problem I am experiening now is that the loading of most KDE apps
|  takes an _unbelievable_ amount of time @ 100% CPU usage, and after a bit
|  of playing around it seems to relate to the number of fonts.
|
|  Surely this is a bug? What's happening every time a KDE application
|  boots? The font list being regenerated or something. Is this a Qt issues
|  and/or being addressed?

FontConfig (http://fontconfig.org) has permanent-like cache for fonts.
Besides, every minute (can be changed) it checks font folders (defined in 
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf) to see wether there are some new fonts added.

So, when you use Qt 3.1 and KDE 3.1, and both are compiled with FontConfig 
support, font lists are not regenerated on startup of every application (like 
it was in KDE 3.0.x)

I currently run XFree86 4.2.99 (CVS snapshot), Qt 3.1, KDE 3.1-RC5, and apps 
start *faster* (comparing to KDE 3.1-beta2, QT 3.0.5)

Hope this helps!

|
|  Any insight appreciated.
|
|  (BTW, It's a 1Ghz Duron running RedHat 8.0)
|
|  Cheers,
|  Grant

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