Dolphin slow start time and kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml

[Germano Massullo]

Il 05/07/2015 22:02, Germano Massullo ha scritto:
> Today on #fedora-kde, user rom1dep complained about Dolphin (KDE 4)
> taking ~5 seconds to start. He said that removing
> .kde/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml
> .kde/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml.bak
> solved the problem. Those files contained thousands of lines about old
> (and no longer used) removable devices.
> Since I am running Plasma 5 and I was experiencing slow Dolphin start
> times too, I tried to check how many code lines had my  /bookmarks.xml.
> I saw that it contained 7161 lines, for 228 KiB of disk space. I tried
> to remove those files, then logged out&in from Plasma, and then I saw
> that Dolphin required much less time to start. Removing those files did
> not affect the resources/bookmarks that everyday I use in Dolphin.
>
> Do you confirm that removing those files reduces Dolphin start time?
> Why do they contain all that stuff about unused removable devices? I
> could see lines of XML code about Fedora 16
>
Did anybody experienced that?