Qt Designer 4.4.0 is slooooow to open

[thomaspu]

Qt Designer 4.4.0 is slooooow to open, this thing takes like 20sec to open. 4.4.0-rc1 opened up near immediately. What gives?

Paul

[wysota]

Delete Designer's configuration file (or registry keys). It's path is Trolltech/Designer.conf relative to the config root (like ~/.config).

[thomaspu]

Yeah, I had tried deleting the stuff and it didn't make any difference. Its so strange, I double click and can then go grab a drink and come back before it loads.

Hmm... so i just tried to fire up 4.4.0-rc1 and it does the same thing... it didn't before. I'm lost as to whats changed. So it probably isn;t a problem with 4.4.0 specifically cause rc1 didn't have that slow startup problem.

Paul

[wysota]

Deleting the config file should have worked... Oh... I know... Designer used to act very strange for me when my network connection wasn't working. I think it was caused by the webkit plugin, but I'm not sure. Do you have an active (and working) internet connection when you start Designer?

[thomaspu]

Yeah, my internet connection is ok. It seems to take exactly 30sec for it to open.

Paul

[thomaspu]

Now when I compiled Qt 4.4.0 I did not build it with webkit support... I wonder if this build of Qt acts the same on my laptop....

Paul

[thomaspu]

So I copied over the qt files onto my desktop where I also do development work and it opened up designer just fine. My laptop is XP and my desktop (where its slow to open) is Vista SP1. Strange.

Paul

[wysota]

Maybe you didn't delete all the config files...