Lunacy version:
OS version: Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed and Ubuntu 22.04
I noticed one problem, if there are a lot of fonts installed in the operating system, Lunacy takes a very long time to start up. Sometimes it can run for 10-15 minutes, and sometimes for an hour! In this case it actively uses 25% of the CPU.
I noticed this problem in all Linux distributions and it persists in the beta-version of the program as well. At the moment I have about 8-9 gigabytes of fonts installed and it takes an hour to run.
I think it is necessary to optimize this point, the problem does not appear if there are not many fonts in the system.
Hello
What is your Lunacy version?
Thank you
Okay, we haven’t really tested for 10 gigs of fonts installed. During the first launch Lunacy caches the font library and afterwards everything should launch fine. The catch is that any modification/installation of a new font will make the app cache everything again.
We will think of how we could optimize the processes involved, as an option we could make font loading take place in a different CPU thread
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Good evening, thanks for the quick response. Caching helps, but unfortunately not much. For example, a program can run for an hour, but after caching startup time is reduced to 10-15 minutes.
Also because of the huge font libraries, the program hangs when trying to apply any font to text. I hope this will be fixed, I really like the program.
As a professional designer of 15+ years, and as someone who also works with many other professional designers, none of us have/need 9+ gigs of fonts installed on our systems. Hell, we don’t even have that combined. It sounds to me like you found and downloaded a massive torrent full of fonts and just installed all of them. For perspective, most fonts average (depending on how many weights are included) 700kb - 1.3mb (though, many of them are much smaller, like 50-100kb). But, for the sake of easy math, let’s say every font is 1mb (again, most of them are much, much smaller). It would take 1,024 fonts at 1mb PER FONT to equal 1gig. So, in this scenario, it would take 9,216 fonts to come out to 9gigs. There isn’t a single professional designer on this planet who uses or needs that many fonts.
For one thing, you can’t even keep track of which fonts are good and which aren’t. For another, that’s way too many choices, with many of them looking very similar (it’s just a statistical fact that many of them will look the same). Also, not only does Lunacy have to deal with loading 9,000+ fonts, but so does Linux. I can tell you this problem is not limited to Lunacy either, as Photoshop, Affinity Photo 2, etc would all choke trying to load that many. There are about 9,216 other reasons not to install that many fonts.
As far as Icon8 and Lunacy is concerned, if I were them, I wouldn’t bother trying to solve for this issue. The amount of development time and resources required to solve an issue that probably 0.001% of the userbase faces is definitely not worth it, when the easier solution, that is better for all parties involved would be for you to uninstall all of those fonts and install 15-20 good fonts.