[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 138831] New: Slow startup with many fonts installed

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138831

            Bug ID: 138831
           Summary: Slow startup with many fonts installed
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.0.3.1 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: pmenzel+bugs.documentfoundation.org at molgen.mpg.de

LibreOffice: 7.0.4~rc2-1

Users reported slow startup time of 15 seconds of LibreOffice Writer on a
modern system with AMD Ryzen 3 2200G, 16 GB RAM and SSD running Debian
sid/unstable.

The LinuxQuestions.org post *[SOLVED] LibreOffice Slow to Launch * [1]
referenced the solution described in article *LibreOffice Slow to Launch* [2],
and indeed uninstalling the font package *fonts-noto-extra* with an install
size of 269 MB reduced the startup time to around four seconds (which is still
longer than the OS takes to start).

Could the font parsing be taken out of the startup path?

[1]:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/libreoffice-slow-to-launch-4175671055/page2.html
[2]:
https://www.remembertheusers.com/2020/03/0624-libreoffice-slow-to-launch.html
[3]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-noto-extra

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