This time should be roughly equivalent to the time you previously spent looking at the connection progress dialog. Is it longer with the betas, or are you primarily reacting to the lack of visual feedback?
The start time should also improve _at least_ some in beta4, but as I do not recall particularly long start times in beta3.1, I am unsure if that will fully address this bug. -- Gaim 2.0 unusably slow in Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/67195 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
