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title="NEW - fontconfig cache creation takes a long time during GIMP startup"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101820">101820</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>fontconfig cache creation takes a long time during GIMP startup
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<th>Product</th>
<td>fontconfig
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>library
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>fontconfig-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>schumaml@gmx.de
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>freedesktop@behdad.org
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<pre>On Microsoft Windows platforms, the first start of an application using
fontconfig can be the first time the fontconfig cache is actually created.
For GIMP, we get the occasionally bug report that this takes a very long time
on startup, on every DST change (due to how MS Windows reports file
modification dates), and sometimes "every time".
We take that last one with several grains of salt, because "every time" may
just be "I noticed it the last time I started GIMP, and oops it doesn't happen
just now...".
Anyway, in bug <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782676">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782676</a> there is a
description of what is happening to some users upgrading to GIMP 2.8.22 right
now - including a copy of the fontconfig cache folder which allows to reproduce
the issue.
Maybe someone working on fontconfig can shed some light on the issue, and tells
us whether this is an issue in fontconfig, or in the way it is packaged in the
GIMP installers, or the way it is used by GIMP?</pre>
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