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7aba2bd305 Type: scan system fonts off the UI thread (#3021) (#3030)
* Type: scan system fonts off the UI thread (#3021)

The first `photocraft_text::shared()` call scans every installed font, and
nothing made that call before the Type tool's options bar drew its font
menu, so the scan ran inside a UI frame (over 60 s on some Macs, #2518).

- photocraft-text: `warm_shared()` starts the scan on a background thread;
  `try_shared()` returns the engine without blocking (None while the scan
  runs, started there if nobody warmed it; built in place on the web, in
  tests, if the thread can't start or the worker died). `shared()` keeps
  its blocking behaviour for engine commands.
- The desktop app warms the fonts at start-up.
- Font menus that draw every frame (options bar, Character, Glyphs and the
  Character/Paragraph Styles family menus) show a disabled "Loading fonts…"
  box and repaint until the scan is done. "Loading fonts…" is in all 16
  catalogs.

Complements #2644 (CoreText discovery on macOS): this changes where the
scan runs, not how fonts are discovered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

* Type: axis sliders wait for the background font scan too

#2996 (landed on main) added axis_sliders, which called the blocking
photocraft_text::shared() every frame; use try_shared() so the Character
section doesn't stall while the scan runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
2026-10-11 16:25:57 -04:00
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