dolphin-4.5 incredibly slow?

Gh0str1d3r · Guru Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 411

Hi,

does anyone have the same problem:

since I upgraded to kde-4.5, dolphin is more or less unusable. it takes minutes (honestly!) to open folders or even the context menu.

Just recognized that dolphin-4.5 is not in the main portage tree, probably due to these problems. Anyway, is there a solution?

jbouzan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 138

I'm using it, no problems. Well, no dolphin problems. I have an intel igp so KDE is slow in general, but dolphin is perfectly fine. Have you checked whether it's just your cpu usage being too high? Any other programs having the problem?

Gh0str1d3r · Guru Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 411

its not a CPU issue, I can use all other programs while dolphin still tries to open a folder.

zBrain · Apprentice Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 199

Did you ever get this figured out?

I click an icon, takes 5-10 seconds to open.

Right click, 5-10 seconds for a context menu.

Paste, 5-10 seconds before the operation starts.

It's driving me nuts.

Gh0str1d3r · Guru Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 411

it was solved for me by unmerging / deleting everything kde related and restarting from scratch with a fresh emerge kde. Dolphin is now usable, without being incredibly fast.

drizzt · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 428

two debug suggestions:

a) try with a fresh user (aka a fresh .kde folder)
b) reset the windowdecoration to plastik or something other simple. I had slowness issues with window decorations (no kidding!) where i took ages to open windows etc...

greets
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