Comment 2 for bug 418726

Thanks for the quick reply. I should have mentioned that I use Linux (openSUSE), FWIW. In any case, no other application (e.g. Gimp, OpenOffice, KDE applications) exhibit the same behaviour. One application that does take a while because of the amount of fonts is Scribus (a DTP application). However, it at least provides me with a progress dialogue in the splash screen that informs me about what's going on (that it is processing the font information) - Inkscape just sits there quietly without providing any visible feedback.

And you should leave it up to the user to decide if he needs that many fonts or not ;)