https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378227
--- Comment #2 from Deepak Mittal ---
Yes pretty sure. This doesn't just happen on dialog boxes, so you may change
the "product" for this bug. This happens with every KDE application. I thought
dolphin and gwenview were generally slow, b
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378227
--- Comment #3 from Deepak Mittal ---
Also see this:
grep 'usr/share/fonts' /tmp/dolphin | grep '^stat' | wc -l
47570
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--- Comment #4 from Deepak Mittal ---
Someone else having the same issue here:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/519936-Installing-new-fonts-in-Plasma-5-left-me-with-a-very-slow-system
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--- Comment #6 from Deepak Mittal ---
`sudo fc-cache -sf` didn't help. It's still making 55k stat calls in the
/usr/share/fonts directory.
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Bug ID: 378227
Summary: KDialog scans all fonts directory before showing
dialog box making it super slow
Product: kdialog
Version: 1.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378227
--- Comment #7 from Deepak Mittal ---
This somehow looks similar to this bug is also affecting inkscape and GIMP -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1614870
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--- Comment #8 from Deepak Mittal ---
On further investigation of strace output, and doing some grepping and
filtering I found out the stat calls were made because of .glif files in
/usr/share/fonts directory. All of these files were basically sources
