150502 – firefox compiled with pango support

Bug 150502 - firefox compiled with pango support

Summary: firefox compiled with pango support

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team

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Reported:	2006-10-08 12:44 UTC by Lashmanov Valeriy
Modified:	2006-11-08 16:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Lashmanov Valeriy 2006-10-08 12:44:04 UTC

By default firefox is compiled with pango support.
It makes firefox font rendering _much_ slower.
Fortunately, it could be disabled by 'export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1'.
Perhaps it sould be a USE flag?..

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2006-10-16 13:37:38 UTC

This is more of an enahancement than anything. I am in favor of it but until someone can show benchmarks with conviencing data I would recommend again as it does also require the linguas be checked. Not all support disabling pango support.

Comment 2 Lashmanov Valeriy 2006-10-16 14:27:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Not all support disabling pango
> support.

I mean I think it should be customizable (with USE flag). Maybe enabled by default, but customizable. I'm just want to have a "good way" to disable it.

Comment 3 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-08 16:09:16 UTC

Moznopango USE flag added which solves this. Thanks all.