I would like some brave soul, a Lennart Pöttering's spiritual successor of sorts, to write a drop-in, ABI-compatible replacement for fontconfig/libfontconfig, m

I would like some brave soul, a Lennart Pöttering's spiritual successor of sorts, to write a drop-in, ABI-compatible replacement for fontconfig/libfontconfig, maybe some kind of a "fontd", that would enumerate fonts in the system once (maybe per login) and applications wouldn't have to reinitialize all the crap all over again each time they start, but instead connect over a socket and get the information from a centralized place. It would also solve the problem that half of your applications need to be restarted whenever you install a new font, or they just won't see it appear. And where they have hacks implemented to overcome that, that every bloody application has to query available fonts again, which makes it quite tedious for the system once you have lots of fonts and lots of applications open, even if your machine is beefy enough. It wouldn't solve a problem of pathetic whiners who desperately cling to the old ways who will come in droves to complain on HN and LWN, but then again, nothing is ever new under the sun.