On Sunday, May 24, 2026 3:01:07 AM Mountain Standard Time Gregory Mounie wrote: > Package: krita > Version: 1:6.0.1.1+dfsg-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > > Starting krita for the first time, the launch time on my computer was > dramatically long (I tried Sid and experimental version). > > While the splash screen is present with "loading resources", there is > no indication of progress. I believed first Krita was buggy and > looping somewhere. Indeed, I had an old krita configuration .config/ > and .cache/ that I removed to check for the "bug", and finally get > things worse :-) > > I strace Krita. Krita reads every font files to cache it in its user's > database (`strace krita 2&>1 | grep openat | grep font`). When you > have several thousands of font files on a slow computer, it takes up > to one second per font, thus tens minutes, may be close to the half > an hour or more for me (as I interrupt/start it several times, krita was > partially caching each time). > > I have an old CPU, a SSD for the system and the fonts, but an HDD > for my home, for writing the user's database. > > I would change the writing in the splash screen to give an estimated > time to complete the font caching: after measuring the time to managed > the first 100 fonts, and counting the total number of fonts. > > * After the first launch, everything is fine > > Krita is a very nice tool for sketching and drawing. I am afraid this > first launch could loose some users. > > Hope this help > Grégory
That sounds like the type of bug that should be submitted upstream. I would recommend you do so and then mark the Debian bug as forwarded to the upstream bug report URL. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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