Comment 4 for bug 724360

Hi,

I also have this issue with a non-responding dolphin, but it's not just dolphin. plasma-desktop is also not responding right away (up to 10 seconds lag). Now, as posted by Bzzz on 2011-02-26, "net usershare info" seems to be the problem (every time I get this problem, there is the same message appering every 2-3 seconds, but thrown by plasma-desktop).

So, calling "net usershare info" directly from a terminal does result in a waiting time of about 10 seconds (it's the default timeout of the net command). The strange thing is, as I found out a few minutes ago, is, that this only happens if the internet connection is at its limit. As I'm sitting behind a slow connection right now (50kb/s -> DSL lite), this gets really annoying.

As I see it, there are 2 problems: "net" being slow if the internet connection is at its limit (or: why does "net" even try to get contact to the internet if I want it to get some info from my usershare? It doesn't if I'm not online.)

The other problem is, that some KDE programs are too dependent on KSambaSharePrivate::getNetUserShareInfo. Why does plasma-desktop need some samba-info when I'm moving the mouse pointer around the task bar? And, shouldn't it be done in a separated thread at least, to not disturb the rest of the system? The funny thing is that the error message does not appear if my internet connection is not at limit.

In my opinion, both programs should be fixed.

Sorry for the long message, but it gets a bit frustrating here. And I'm talking about KDE 4.6.3 on natty.