Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)

When clicking on an as yet invisible component on the button row on the left, the mouse cursor transforms into a wrist watch while waiting for the component to load.

This loading just takes too long, between 4 and 6 seconds on a fast workstation. I like lazily loading components since it cuts the overall startup time. But it looks like only the Kontact layer does it and not the components below. They as well should only instantiiate the necessary visible widgets and defer the loading to some other time or some other thread.

It's probably pretty late in the game, so an easier solution might be to give the user the choice to preload his favorite components at Kontact startup so they are there when he needs them.