2012/11/13 Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>:
>> I'm using the latest GIT.
>>
>> I haven't done any deep digging but there is no doubt that
>> Konqueror is opening much slower than I am accustomed. Any
>> request to open Konqueror takes two or more seconds. This is
>> a dual core system with 8GB RAM and SATA II disks.
>>
>> I have not seen this problem before. Only recently.
>>
>> I have an instance preloaded and always have had that option
>> enabled, but what I see indicates this is not happening.
>> Could there have been a patch in the past few weeks that is
>> affecting preloading?
>>
>> I checked Konqueror in a virtual machine using a GIT package
>> set that hasn't been updated in a couple of months. There,
>> Konqueror opened right away, thereby confirming my
>> observations in my normal system.
>>
>> A fresh profile makes no difference.
>>
>> Anybody else noticing this?
>
> Um, KMail too.
>
> I reverted to my package set from GIT short version 8443 Oct. 30 and both Konqueror and KMail again open quickly.
>
> Tim, would the recent style engine patches cause apps to open slowly?
>
> Darrell

Try running apps from the terminal emulator, there could be useful
warnings. I had similar problem with KDE4 (sorry :) ) some time ago
and warnings gave a clue that applications were recreating the shared
cache on startup (actually there were more problems but that's another
story).
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  WBR,
  Vadim Zhukov