[Bug 531105] Useless font auto-installer calls

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--- Comment #2 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-10-26 18:35:46 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > The font stack triggers the PK font auto-installer for stuff like N'ko or
> > Ancient Persian for which fontconfig has no orthography
> > 
> > Therefore, those calls will never succeed and the user is bothered for no good
> > reason
> 
> This is surely a bug.  And easy to fix, in at least two ways on the PK side:
> 
> 1) Only show a dialog if there's any font supporting that language.  This was
> supposed to be the default.  Not sure why it wasn't implemented this way.

PK asks for permission to search for fonts, and since it has not searched yet,
it does not know if there's any font supporting that language yet

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