On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd say there are 2 issues: the first launch, and next launches on > disappearing font cache. > > For the first launch issue, obviously such a change would not change > anything. For the second problem though, this would fix it. > And actually this second issue is much more annoying than the first > one. The first launch occurs only once per definition. So well, you > may have a very slow first launch, happens once and for all. Annoying > but not the worst. On the other hand, having slow startup at random > points in time (random = each time the TMP dir is emptied for a reason > or another), that's a *lot* more annoying for the user. Sure. using TMP dir sounds not good right. I agreed with you at this point. > Well I agree that system-wide cache is better in many cases. But it > seems that Windows logics does not share much between users. When I > search the web, it sems most applications would save their cache per > user. > This said, maybe such a standard shared directory exist, but I could > not find this information... Oh, that is what I wanted to know... hmm, we need some experts for Windows to improve fontconfig. > Note, while searching for system-wide cache dir, I found this > Wikipedia page saying that thumbnail cache on Windows is also in the > user local AppData: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache#Centralized_thumbnail_cache > > Of course for thumbnails, that may make more sense, security-wise, > since you may not want other users to be able to browse thumbnails of > images you saw, while fonts are usually less problematic, though I > could imagine cases of users using paid font with limited licensing > not wanting to leak information about these fonts too. In any case, > using the locale appdata seems kind of a practice used by Microsoft > software for caching. Well, that kind of sensitive data could be into the user's cache directory. the system-wide caches should be something could be accessible for all of users, but anyway. > In any case, even if you find and want to settle down for a > system-wide dir, I think you need to find another one than the current > one. One which is not wiped out regularly (so a dir not labelled as > "temporary" basically). Yes, definitely. > Unfortunately the state of Windows software management seems so bad to > me that developers have to make compromise and embed all dependencies > in their unique installer. So I don't think an official win32 package > would be the solution adopted by the various software using > fontconfig. Not unless fontconfig was as much a standard as it is on > Linux (unfortunately I feel it unlikely to happen). So I think a > better default cache dir is the best solution for now. I hope someone can be improved later. apparently there are no objections nor opposed ideas on this claim - or even no one is interested in this ;) I'll change this for a workaround at this moment. -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
