From eac34e2ba702458b28b076a80b56e1017e00d366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 20:24:49 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure builtin fonts are only loaded once

---
 src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py b/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py
index daaa043016..434754700c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py
@@ -851,10 +851,15 @@ gui_thread = None
 
 qt_app = None
 
+builtin_fonts_loaded = False
+
 def load_builtin_fonts():
-    global _rating_font
+    global _rating_font, builtin_fonts_loaded
     # Load the builtin fonts and any fonts added to calibre by the user to
     # Qt
+    if builtin_fonts_loaded:
+        return
+    builtin_fonts_loaded = True
     for ff in glob.glob(P('fonts/liberation/*.?tf')) + \
             [P('fonts/calibreSymbols.otf')] + \
             glob.glob(os.path.join(config_dir, 'fonts', '*.?tf')):