I ran strace qtcreator and then tried to open the designer. It appears that qtcreator goes through all the hidden files in your home folder. There were two files there that it hung on: .kaxtv.ts and .kaxtv1.ts.
These files were 0-bytes in length. When I tried to cat them, the terminal would hang. When I tried to open them in gedit, gedit would hang. I moved these files to the Trash and now the designer works fine.
I don't really know what those files are there for, though.
Anyway, this is solved.
]]>Has anyone else experienced this? Do you think that Qt 5.0 will fix this? (It's in the AUR, but I really don't know what package(s) to install, so I stayed away from that.)
Thanks in advance.
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