I've had the same problems and I traced it to the recent switch to libqt 2.3.2 in unstable. If I downgrade to 2.3.1, everything works (mostly) fine. I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been fixed yet as it's rather glaringly obvious.
On Sunday 18 November 2001 01:31 pm, Justin R. Miller wrote: > I recently started having a problem where konqueror in > file browsing mode will take a long time to show the > contents of a folder. Even reloading the current view > will take two or three seconds before any icons are > shown. Also, the gear spinner stops during this hang, > and the window and its menus are inaccessible as well. > This happens for every single directory in this window. > > Other times, things will work fine. It seems that these > times are only when occasionally when new windows are > started, and then all windows become ok. > > This doesn't seem to have any relation to style, whether > previews of any sort are enabled, icon type, or directory > size. > > This seemed to have started a few weeks ago, but I can't > put my finger on anything specific that would have > changed, besides pretty much daily sid updates. > > Any ideas?

