Hi List, I've just subscribed, please direct me to the answer if what I'm about to ask is the FAQ of the century :-). Comparing Sun's Gnome 2.0 and the Blastwave build of Gnome 2.6 (on Solaris/SPARC), I've noticed that the 2.6 applications have an incredibly long start-up time (even on a Blade 2000 2x900cu, which while not the fastest machine on earth, is certainly no slouch). A bit of trussing reveals that even the most trivial of programs performs a full scan of all the available font files on the system. Is this the normal behaviour for fontconfig, or a coding error in Gnome? Surely, trivial applications such as a calculator, or the utility to add a link to a menu, should have the ability to access the couple of system fonts they use without scanning all font directories. Thanks and kind regards, -- Stefaan -- "What is stated clearly conceives easily." -- Inspired sales droid
