Hi all!

Since I updated my machine (gentoo, amd64) to KDE-4.7.4, Kopete is not usable anymore.
Minutes until the UI reacts, extrmely laggy, Skype often doesn't ges autostarted, a big mess.
I tried to downgrade Kopete to the previous 4.7.3 version which worked OK, but with no success (same error persists). So I suppose the problem is not within Kopete but one of the libs it uses. Can anyone verify, give hints?

Which networks do you use? Have you tried deleting the files listed by "find ~/.kde4/share/apps/kopete/ | grep ui.rc"?

There is no such file, the find command finds nothing.
I have a kopeterc and a kopete.notifyrc in /home/user/.kde4/share/config/
and of course a folder under /home/user/.kde4/share/apps/kopete/
but none including anything UI related.
I am using the jabber/gtalk, skype, yahoo plugins.

Does it behave differently under a new user?

Uhh, this will need some time to fiddle with. Right now the machine is in heavy use. I will investigate.

If you have the statistics plugin enabled them disable it. That plugin is the source of slowdowns in Kopete most of the time. I commited some patches to make it less problematic some months ago but it still can cause problems if you have many contacts, specially when you come online and dozens of your contacts online as well.

@lamarque: This is irritating. I didn't had that plugin enabled but recompiled Kopete without "statistics" USE-flag (gentoo) anyways... Now it seems to work as always. Can that be or is it completely unrelated?

That use flag disables compiling the plugin I mentioned, maybe you did not disable it correcly in Kopete. I have that use flag enabled here, I just disables it in the Kopete configuration dialog when I am not using the plugin and it does not cause any more problems.

After my last changes in the statistics plugin it even works reasonably well here (slow to startup but not that much), it is strange it is causing problems for you.

Well, maybe it is unrelated, not too sure. I will investigate further.
My gf uses Kubuntu and also is unhappy about laggy Kopete. Can she do anything in addition to disable statistics? Thanks for helping out, I will report if something srews up again

I do not see what else could cause lagginess. Kopete works well here except or the statistics plugin and a patch that I use that render emoticons in my contact's status messages. That patch really slows Kopete down when toggling "show offline users", that is why I have never commited it to Kopete. I trying to optmizing but I need to create a cache for the tokens and I have never had time for finishing it

Maybe a kwin's plugin effect not working well. I usually disable most things to make my desktop faster: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... =3114139.0

Wahh, thanks for the hints, I will pass it on to her.
For me unfortunately the lagging hell continues. Not only Kopete is affected but also amarok hangs. It's like when you click on a window to get it to front, the window borders are drawn but the content is just not shown I really suspect plasma-desktop to be the cause of this...

Given the kind of slowness you are experiencing are you certain this issue is not being caused by your system hitting disk excessively due to swapping or other conditions?

Yes, it is no swap used. This is a rather fast machine (Core i7/ 4Gig RAM). I ditched the complete ~/.kde4 folder now and started all over again. So far that seems to have helped. Will obeserve.
Thanks for your assistance!

Martux wrote:Wahh, thanks for the hints, I will pass it on to her.
For me unfortunately the lagging hell continues. Not only Kopete is affected but also amarok hangs. It's like when you click on a window to get it to front, the window borders are drawn but the content is just not shown I really suspect plasma-desktop to be the cause of this...

I also use Gentoo and my desktop works almost perfectly here. The only crash happens in Bluedevil when I resume from RAM (I own a bluetooth mouse, so bluetooth is always on here). I have not figure out why happens and the crashlog is not helpfull.

Some things I do not use and I have noticed can cause crashes in KDE:

. pulseaudio. I have it installed for tests but it is disabled by default. I have a dmix/dsnoop configuration has works wonderfully (even with Skype), then I do not need any sound server here;

. gstreamer. Same (installed for tests but disabled by default). I use phonon-vlc as my default backend. Sometimes Amarok crashes here, but if not that often and used to crash more when I used phonon-xine (I switched to phonon-vlc last month).

My kopete's use flags:

[ebuild R ~] kde-base/kopete-4.7.4 USE="addbookmarks autoreplace contactnotes debug groupwise highlight history jingle msn nowlistening oscar otr pipes privacy skype ssl statistics texteffect translator urlpicpreview v4l xmpp (-aqua) -gadu -handbook (-kdeenablefinal) -latex -meanwhile -qq -sms -testbed -webpresence -winpopup -yahoo -zeroconf"

Well, I have almost the same setup (except additionally also yahoo).
It works now after I redid all of KDEs configs. Rough but OK...
Do you have any idea how to import my previous chat-history?