Re: speedup the startuptime of kde apps
On November 7, 2005 16:30, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> Hi kde-qt-devs,
>
> today I read a block which gives you a hint how to speedup you kde
> applications:
>
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1594
>
> In short it says:
>
> If the fonts module in KControl has entries like "sans serif" or
> "monospace", find out what these aliases refer to with "fc-match
> monospace" and replace it with the answer (in my case bitstream vera
> sans).
>
> Since Debian has sans serif and monospace as default in KControl for a
> while I'd like to know how to measure the speedup in order to evaluate
> this tip.
>
> Sorry if this is a bit OT, but maybe the results could be usefull for KDE
> in Debian.
This would be good for users to know, but as for the KDE packaging, it
really wouldn't be feasible to change our defaults. Also, the blog you cite
mentions that this problem will be fixed in the next fontconfig release, so
hopefully soon we'll all benefit.
Cheers,
Christopher Martin
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