Bug 205237

Summary: kde waits 5s while starting up
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, finex, kdelibs-bugs, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Clemens Eisserer 2009-08-26 21:51:15 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

On my system KDE starts up with the splash screen, but when the last icon (the big "K") is reached the system pauses for about 5-10s without any IO or CPU activity.
When clicking on the splash-screen during that time, I see a completly initialized plasma, but no applications in the system-tray plasmoid.
After that idle time, kde continues to load.

It seems during startup, KDE is waiting 5-10s for something, slowing down the whole startup process.

I first thought my machine is broken, but I saw the same behaviour with Kubuntu-9.10alpha4 on my gf's laptop.
Comment 1 Clemens Eisserer 2009-08-26 21:54:02 UTC 
Summary: It would probably be a good idea, to:

1. Start the system-tray apps earlier
2. Hide the splashscreen sooner, to give the user the impression of a faster start.
Comment 2 FiNeX 2009-08-26 23:11:48 UTC 
Do you have plasmoids which needs a network connection?
Comment 3 Clemens Eisserer 2009-08-27 12:33:44 UTC 
Not that I know of. Is there some configuration file listing all plasmoids enabled?
Comment 4 Dario Andres 2009-08-28 22:03:48 UTC 
In the Add Widgets list, (which lists *all of them*), if the remove symbol is show in a row, then you have at least one plasmoid of that type.
Comment 5 Clemens Eisserer 2009-10-17 18:12:58 UTC 
Ok, I use these plasmoids:
- Application Launcher
- Battery Monitor
- Device Notifier
- Digital Clock
- Pager
- System Tray
- Tast Manager

I see the same sympthom on a laptop of a friend of mine, but she is running Kubuntu-9.10 beta.
Comment 6 Clemens Eisserer 2010-06-04 01:31:34 UTC 
Ok, I don't see this issue anymore with kde-4.4.3