Comment 3 for bug 1311873

I'm running UbuntuStudio, and have not explicitly added any fonts myself.

The system has nearly 5200 fonts installed (not counting what's in ".ttc" collections).

I experience the slowness Zack reported, but it is much worse when I try to change fonts.

I haven't timed it, but if something non-trivial is running (such as chromium, with it's constant barrage of ridiculously copious redundant system calls and clearly unplanned timeout reads following polls that timed out with no descriptors ready), I can microwave water for instant coffee before the font menu gets populated (I'm assuming that's what I'm waiting for, anyway).

This condition makes the Text functionality in Pinta quite uncomfortable to use for all but the most trivial purposes.