Re: help getting GNUStep running on Debian

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 20-Feb-2002 Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> I have not tried this yet.  However your answer concerns me.  Why does
>> GNUStep feel it needs to load up all of my fonts?  I have lots of fonts
>> installed because I occasionally need to test how Japanese looks or 100
>> dpi v. 75 dpi. It seems silly to me to load up each font in my font list
>> when the average user will only use around 5 fonts.
> 
> GNUstep uses a font cache, which maps XLFDs to a form which an OpenStep
> program will understand (to be specific, AFM). Doing the mapping every time a
> font is needed is very slow. :)
> 

I understand that.  But why not do an on demand lookup?  When a font is
requested it can be cached.