Bug#532410: konqueror: Preview mode is very slow for large numbers of files

[David <wizzardx@gmail.com>]

Package: konqueror
Version: 4:4.2.4-1
Severity: normal

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In KDE 3.5, Konqueror handled directories with thousands of image
files gracefully. It was responsive and you could start browsing the
directory immediately. Konqueror in KDE 4 now stalls a lot more, so I
have to use Gwenview instead, which handles directories full of images
more gracefully with less stalling.

Another thing which stalls Konqueror is resizing the thumbnail size,
on directories with thousands of images.

Konqueror ideally should handle more things in the background, rather
than making the UI unresponsive while processing thumbnails (or
whatever is making it stall), like it did in KDE 3.5.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii  kdebase-bin            4:4.2.4-1         core binaries for the KDE 4 base m
ii  kdebase-data           4:4.2.4-1         shared data files for the KDE 4 ba
ii  kdebase-runtime        4:4.2.4-1         runtime components from the offici
ii  kdelibs5               4:4.2.4-1         core libraries for all KDE 4 appli
ii  libc6                  2.9-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libkonq5               4:4.2.4-1         core libraries for Konqueror
ii  libkonqsidebarplugin4  4:4.2.4-1         Konqueror sidebar plugin library
ii  libqt4-dbus            4.5.1-2           Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-qt3support      4.5.1-2           Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt
ii  libqt4-xml             4.5.1-2           Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4             4.5.1-2           Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4              4.5.1-2           Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.0-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages konqueror recommends:
ii  dolphin                       4:4.2.4-1  file manager for KDE 4
ii  konqueror-nsplugins           4:4.2.4-1  Netscape plugin support for Konque

Versions of packages konqueror suggests:
pn  konq-plugins                  <none>     (no description available)

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