The freedesktop team told that the font files aren't cached. However the fonts can be compressed with gzip but it will decrease the speed and increase the memory consumption. Moreover the additional CPU time will increase the energy consumption.
Thus I don't think that compressing the fonts will be efficient with the current tools. A solution could be to put the fonts in the /var/lib/fonts directory. When fontconfig wants to access a font file, it will uncompress it in place of the compressed file. When a font file isn't used for one month fontconfig could automatically compress it again. -- [Feature request] fontconfig should support compressed font files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
