Bug#423001: karm takes much too long to add/delete items

[Lee Braiden <lee@unite.net>]

Package: karm
Version: 4:3.5.6.dfsg.1-2
Severity: normal

Karm takes 3-4 seconds to add a to-do item, and 5 seconds to delete a to-do item here.  I have a fairly modern system (2.53 Ghz, 512MB RAM), with a load average of 0.11.  The delay seems to lock up the app for a moment, preventing the window from refreshing.  This also happens on quitting karm, but that may be more normal.  Pulling up properties for a task or editing the description of a task and closing the dialog again does not show this problem.  Updating the time for a task and then right-clicking the task results in a similar delay before rendering the menu.

I imagine that other karm users would have complained by now if this was common, as it's very frustrating and time-consuming when managing large lists of tasks.  The only possible reasons I can think of for this affecting me and not others are:

* I tend to reset times at the end of each day, or each morning, and delete all items, at the start of each new day.
* I use this for around 8-15 tasks each day
* I use hierarchies, adding and deleting items under items which I use as headings.  I only use these 1-level deep though (usually) and the same delays seem to be present on the top level tasks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages karm depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a          4:3.5.6.r1.dfsg.1-4 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libacl1              2.2.42-1            Access control list shared library
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.19-3            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libattr1             1:2.4.32-1.1        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudio2            1.9-1               The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6                2.5-7               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1       2.4.2-1.2           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.2.1-5             FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgamin0 [libfam0]  0.1.8-2             Client library for the gamin file 
ii  libgcc1              1:4.1.2-6           GCC support library
ii  libice6              1:1.0.3-2           X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11             0.6.5-1             GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62            6b-13               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkcal2b            4:3.5.6.dfsg.1-2    KDE calendaring library
ii  libkdepim1a          4:3.5.6.dfsg.1-2    KDE PIM library
ii  libktnef1            4:3.5.6.dfsg.1-2    Library for handling KTNEF email a
ii  libpng12-0           1.2.15~beta5-1      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt            3:3.3.7-4+b1        Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6               1:1.0.2-2           X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6           4.1.2-6             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6             2:1.0.3-7           X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.8-2           X cursor management library
ii  libxext6             1:1.0.3-2           X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2              2.1.12-2            FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6               1:1.0.1-4           X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1         1:1.0.2-1           X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.2.1-1           X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.2-1           X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxss1              1:1.1.2-1           X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxt6               1:1.0.5-2           X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3-13          compression library - runtime

karm recommends no packages.

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