Why is OpenOffice slow?

[Wisely Koh]

never had the mentioned problem. either it loads equally slow or
equally fast on both windows and x..



On 7/2/06, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 21:21 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> > I think this is an artifact of X.  X is a bloated pig in comparison
> > even to Windows (!).
>
> It isn't. It has been demonstrated time after time that with good
> drivers (e.g. nvidia's) you get the same or better framerates than in
> windows
>
> >  I've always found X to be sluggish (since my days on Sun workstations
> > in the dark ages).  Get some of the lighter window managers (XFCE,
> > fluxbox, etc.) and it's OK, but the full-featured ones?
>
> You are confusing X and the toolkits. The issue is more that the
> toolkits (it seems especially gtk+) use X in a way that is not optimal.
> This is a problem of X only insofar as it gives the freedom to do so by
> separating mechanism and policy. This is especially noticable with
> remote X connections. Wikipedia has a nice writeup:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
>
> >  Painful.  For example I can't reliably drag things.  X will get so
> > screwed up refreshing the window/icon/whatever of the object I'm
> > dragging that the mouse "loses" the item.
>
> I haven't ever seen this behavior in the 10 years I've been using X
>
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