Avoid loading and keeping unused fallback font engines

When we request glyphs from fallback fonts, we would potentially
load all fonts on the system into memory. This is especially true
for glyphs that are not supported by any font (or by the last in
the list) in any "Common" script (which e.g. includes CJK).

This would make any application which tried to display unsupported
glyphs use huge amounts of memory for keeping unused fonts cached,
only limited by the number of fonts on the system.

The patch contains two solutions: First, before loading the font,
the multi font engine will be asked whether it needs to be tried
for the given character. By default, this will always be true, so
all fonts will be tried, but with the new font config multi engine
in the platform plugin, it will ask FontConfig whether the font
contains a glyph for the character.

Should the font be loaded and still fail to resolve the character
(which could be the case for other platforms), we will simply
delete it again immediately instead keeping it cached.

Change-Id: I92dfb39289a359f49caa02c2caf8baf66098fb59
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/fontconfig/qfontenginemultifontconfig_p.h b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/fontconfig/qfontenginemultifontconfig_p.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4323cb7d2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/fontconfig/qfontenginemultifontconfig_p.h
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/****************************************************************************
+**
+** Copyright (C) 2012 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+** Contact: http://www.qt-project.org/
+**
+** This file is part of the plugins of the Qt Toolkit.
+**
+** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
+** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage
+** This file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+** License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation and
+** appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the packaging of this
+** file. Please review the following information to ensure the GNU Lesser
+** General Public License version 2.1 requirements will be met:
+** http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html.
+**
+** In addition, as a special exception, Nokia gives you certain additional
+** rights. These rights are described in the Nokia Qt LGPL Exception
+** version 1.1, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package.
+**
+** GNU General Public License Usage
+** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU General
+** Public License version 3.0 as published by the Free Software Foundation
+** and appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL included in the packaging of this
+** file. Please review the following information to ensure the GNU General
+** Public License version 3.0 requirements will be met:
+** http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
+**
+** Other Usage
+** Alternatively, this file may be used in accordance with the terms and
+** conditions contained in a signed written agreement between you and Nokia.
+**
+**
+**
+**
+**
+**
+** $QT_END_LICENSE$
+**
+****************************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef QFONTENGINEMULTIFONTCONFIG_H
+#define QFONTENGINEMULTIFONTCONFIG_H
+
+#include <QtGui/private/qfontengine_qpa_p.h>
+
+QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
+
+class QFontEngineMultiFontConfig : public QFontEngineMultiQPA
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+public:
+    explicit QFontEngineMultiFontConfig(QFontEngine *fe, int script, const QStringList &fallbacks);
+
+    bool shouldLoadFontEngineForCharacter(int at, uint ucs4) const;
+};
+
+QT_END_NAMESPACE
+
+#endif // QFONTENGINEMULTIFONTCONFIG_H