Re: fonts in gtk-2.0/pango

[Keith Packard <keithp keithp com>]

Around 0 o'clock on Jul 28, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> The dialog is a little slow to appear when first opened, as it checks
> through the list of fonts, but on the second and subsequent accesses
> it consults a cache.

A little slow?  I imagine performance with a set of thousands of fonts 
would be somewhat painful.

Very few monospaced fonts bother to set any of the various TrueType
monospaced hints; I went so far in Fontconfig as to stop bothering to check
because I'd end up with empty lists using that property.

Of course, now that fontconfig actually looks at every glyph in every font 
to determine accurate Unicode coverage, perhaps it could check their 
widths to see if the font is monospaced.  Hmm.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab