Selection in Konqueror is extremely slow

[getaceres]

I'm using Breezy with a 1280x1024 screen. When I make a big selection in
Konqueror (for example, select the entire window) it becomes unresponsive. I
think it's because of the fake transparency that's includen in that version of
Konqueror.
I don't know why does it happen in Konqueror because using the same big
selection in KPDF, that uses the same fake transparency, it does not become
unresponsive.

[getaceres (getaceres)]

I tried KDE 3.5 beta1 for breezy and it's still the same. When making a big selection it drops performance.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

This is due to the rubber band patch, I need to see how other distributions handle the issue.

[Rocco Stanzione (trappist)]

I tried to reproduce this in kde 3.5.2 and saw no performance degredation while manually selecting all the text on a long slashdot article with several hundred comments. Is this still reproducible?

[getaceres (getaceres)]

The problem is not with Konqueror as a web browser, but as a file manager. It's slow when it draws the semi-transparent square that selects files.
Anyway, I tried with Konqueror 3.5.2 (and XGL, I don't know if that matters) and it's faster than before, now it's as fast as it's on nautilus, but still not as fast as Windows XP.

[Job Noorman (jobnoorman)]

Just to let you know that this problem still exists running konqueror 3.5.6 on kubuntu feisty. It doesn't matter how many files/folders you select, but how big the surface is you "select".
It happens on my own desktop pc and my girlfriends laptop.