adding loads of fonts causes really slow loading

[dogmatic69]

I have added around 4500 fonts to ~/.fonts

Since then inkscape takes around 2 or 3 minutes to open. This is not a problem for other applications such as LibreOffice which still manages to open within a few seconds.

Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

inkscape:
  Installed: 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: inkscape 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 15 01:17:36 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: inkscape
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.