Re: [Gimp-gui] Prioritize loading speed, dismiss fonts loading.

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 14:26 +0000, Fulvio Massimo Mariani wrote:

> Also consider that a designer usually has more than 3000 fonts
> installed,

Yup...
$ fc-list | wc -l
9069

And that's only active fonts.

GIMP starts in under 5 seconds though, and this computer is several
years old. And since 99% of Microsoft Windows users are just game
players we should drop support for it :-) More seriously, i don't think
dropping support for text is a solution.

As Jehan wrote, GIMP doesn't have any full-time Windows developrs. The
GIMP work is done by volunteers, so if you know how to solve this
Windows-specific slow startup problem, become a volunteer!

Do you have your fonts on a network drive by the way? Is GIMP slow to
start only the first time after you installed or removed a font? Do you
have Monotype SkyFonts installed?

Liam [ ankh on irc ]

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