[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#494933: charmap.app: the range switching is terribly slow

Sat Sep 6 08:03:19 UTC 2008

It's not just DejaVu. It's quite a number of them.

- Marc

Marc J. Driftmeyer
mjd at reanimality.com
http://www.reanimality.com
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On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Hubert Chathi wrote:

> Sorry for the delay, I've been off-list for a while.
>
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:52:00 +0300, Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org>  
> said:
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> [...]
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>> The second problem is the original one.  For some (unknown to me)
>> reason, defoma generates wrong FontInfo.plist for some fonts in
>> /var/lib/defoma/gnustep-nfont.d/Fonts/*.nfont/.  It might be a bug in
>> our gnustep-nfont.defoma script, or a bug in defoma.  When you switch
>> a range in Charmap, it tries to find the appropriate font to display
>> the characters, and does an extensive font lookup, which fails with
>
> [...]
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>> The filenames for the fonts are simply generated wrong, and so it
>> takes quite some time to traverse through all of them.  The cairo
>> backend accesses the fonts directly, so this bug cannot be reproduced
>> there.
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> This is probably a bug in the font package itself.  The DejaVu package
> occasionally has incorrect font hints.  As well, when font filenames
> change, it does not seem to un-register the old filename, and register
> the new filename.  So defoma ends up pointing to the old file.
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