[Kde-pim] harddisk access when starting kontact/kmail

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 08 October 2007, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Hello!
>
> When I start kontact/kmail it asks for the kwallet-password. Then it
> checks for new email. Yet even if there is no internet-connection,
> i.e. the check fails, kmail/kontact accesses the harddisk for >10
> seconds thereby slowing down KDE starting other applications.
>
> If the check does not fail downloading and processing email is slowed
> down too, because of the extensive harddisk access. If I understand
> the strace output correctly it tries to find some icons.
>
> access("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/quotecollapse.svg",
> R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> access("/opt/gnome/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/quotecollapse.svg
>", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> Is there another way to do whatever this is for in order not to keep
> the harddisk busy?

Disabling "Show expand/collapse quote marks" under Appearance/Message 
Window should help because then KMail will not try to find the 
quotecollapse and the quoteexpand icon.

BTW, this would have better been sent to the kdepim-users mailing list.


Regards,
Ingo
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