http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17548
Summary: wine startup scans all fonts, takes ages Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: PC-x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: felix-wine@fefe.de
wine startup takes ages for me, particularly the first time. I have about 3500 fonts installed on my system, and wine opens all the files at startup. This takes 15-20 seconds on my moderately fast PC. I find this completely unacceptable. We already have TWO font databases to avoid exactly this unnecessary work: fontconfig and the "Software\Wine\Fonts\External Fonts" key in user.reg.
Please give me a way to stop this.