Re: why is the font cache so greedy?

[Adam Fedor]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> My question is, why can't the font cache be demand inserted?  Why load up all
> of the fonts when only a tiny handful are likely to be used?  if this can not


That would probably work in most cases, except when you wanted an 
NSFontPanel. Then we'd have to look through all the fonts anyway to see 
which ones the system had.

We could probably play some games to get around X server limitations. 
Perhaps only search for fonts in the current encoding (assuming we 
wouldn't change it on the fly, which would be nice to support).

We could even hack through the font path using XSetFontPath/XGetFontPath 
so we would only search one part of the path at a time.




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