Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Remove options "Show preview of fonts" and "Show font history"

Hi Stefan, August,

Stefan Knorr (Astron) píše v Pá 23. 12. 2011 v 12:06 +0100:

> > In the particular case of the Fonts I can see that a user on a low resource
> > PC would prefer to quickly see a list with the font names instead of waiting
> > for each font to be drawn... (I'm guessing here, luckily none of my PCs is
> > THAT low resource, but Fonts are usually a problem under Windows at least)
>
> I had not yet thought about the performance problem, but you're right,
> there is a bit of a problem -- under Win, on a 2.6GHz C2D (I'd say
> that's reasonably powerful), the fonts don't appear immediately, but
> one after another, so filling the list takes roughly half a second. Is
> there anyone who would want to work on optimising that?

But even when thinking of the performance, I think the 'font history'
part of the patch is non-controversial, right? :-)  So I'd say, let's
remove the option to show / hide the font history immediately (and show
it always), and test the other part on some old h/w a bit before pushing
- August, how does that sound, please?

Another thing to remove from the font listbox would be the bitmap
indicating the vector fonts; we do not show any bitmap fonts there any
more (do we?), so it is shown for every font in the list.

Thank you a lot,
Kendy