On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:16:44AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > I believe it's the other way around: applications on Mac should not > use fontconfig ;), but when they do (most of them being ported from > linux), they cannot rely on fontconfig's presence on the system. > > It's more or less the same situation on windows. When you launch VLC, > MPlayer, gnuplot/wxt or XeTeX after a long time, it spends the first > minute refreshing font cache.
Right, I think fontconfig should turn itself into a warper around native system font services on such systems and not manage a cache on its own, which is better than porting every fontconfig using application. OT anyway. Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
