Preferences slow to appear

[Tim Welch]

>> With almost any GNOME application, opening the preferences window
>> seems to take around 80-90% cpu (from gkrellm) and freeze GNOME for
>> approximately 2-3 seconds on my machine. Everything from gnome-weather
>> to xchat does it. There are no strange themes or other oddities about my
>>  setup. I've tried a clean user as well. I also notice a distinct pause
>> whenever rhythmbox changes tracks. It lags the mouse cursor and any
>> video output (i.e.. moving a window while the track is changing will blur
>> that window, then reappear normally after rhythmbox is done). What could
>> possibly cause these? Some slowness with whatever library reads gconf is
>> all I can think of for the preferences problem, but what about rhythmbox?
>>
>>
>> System Stats: P4 2.8Ghz HT, 2GB ram, SATA drives on an intel 875
>> chipset Freebsd 6.1-STABLE from ~ July 23, 2006
>> Latest ports as of Aug. 1st
>>
>>
>> -Tim
>>
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>
> There's been trouble with this since we got 2.14.
> One thing to try is to rebuild all of GNOME + Dependencies (This has
> worked for me) An easier way is to search the mailing list. There should be
> a tip about rebuilding your icon cache (Look at May/June, maybe earlier).
> If this
> doesn't work, rebuild. I'd like to be more precise about the icon cache,
> but I'm running late once again and can't search for it myself.
>
> Good luck.
> --
> Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
> lopisaur at gmail.com PGP ID: 483EA9B6
> (+591-705)98290
>
>

  I have rebuilt the icon caches and this is a clean install. I believe
this is a different problem because it _only_ affects preferences
windows as far as I can tell.

-Tim