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greggold

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Saturday, June 14th 2003, 5:49pm

spinning gear wheel in Konqueror

I was copying files using drag and drop in the file manager, when the recipient directory developed a spinning gear wheel on it. I tried help but could not find anything about this, please someone explain what it is or means. I could not stop it or make it go away, but when I exited and re-started Konqueror it had disappeared. I use version 2.1.1. :?:

coolclassic

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Sunday, June 15th 2003, 12:43pm

This may not be your answer but there is a program called gears which does what you say. It is used for measuring frame rates. you may of actioned it in error.
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Sunday, June 15th 2003, 7:22pm

Re: spinning gear wheel in Konqueror

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I was copying files using drag and drop in the file manager, when the recipient directory developed a spinning gear wheel on it. I tried help but could not find anything about this, please someone explain what it is or means. I could not stop it or make it go away, but when I exited and re-started Konqueror it had disappeared. I use version 2.1.1. :?:


Hmmm, 2.1.1 is rather old. Not 100% sure if the following applies
to your version...

Normally the spinning gear indicates some kind of action going on.
Unless you hit a bug it means that konqi didn't finish the display
of the directory contents.

For example, if I enter a directory with lots of images konqi tries
to create thumbnails for them (I have them enabled) which
can take quite a long time if many files are new.
If there are html files that contain images on the web it tries to
load them which can be slow, too. This might even be slower if
I'm offline. And all this time the gear is spinning.