Bug 31944

Summary:	Multiple wallpapers slow system
Product:	kdesktop	Reporter:	fandom
Component:	wallpaper	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex, jacekn, stormlabs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description fandom 2001-09-01 14:00:29 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kdesktop
Version:           KDE 2.2.0 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          gcc 2.96
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

I have defined the wallpapers to change every 10 minutes from images in a directory.

In this directory I have about 14000+ symlinks to images.

When kde starts it takes takes a long time much longer than it takes for root where I have the default wallpapers and if I
change the wallpaper options before the dialog shows up and when I accept the changes KDE takes easily 5 minutes with heavy hard disk usage.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 Ricardo Ferreira 2003-07-07 04:38:51 UTC

I can confirm this. In my case i use a number of dirs filled with wallpapers which 
reside in my fileserver that i access through NFS. Whenever kdesktop is 
launched or i start the Background kcontrol module it takes easily 20 seconds 
of heavy network access for it to appear. Also, the desktop freezes everytime it 
changes the wallpaper.

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2006-06-10 08:49:15 UTC

*** Bug 99317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-09-18 13:54:48 UTC

kdesktop is no more developed. On KDE 4 the plasma-desktop behave differently and this bug is no more valid.