Why is OpenOffice slow?

[Eberhard Roloff]

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:04:45 +0200
Loïc Martin <lomartin3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eberhard Roloff a écrit :
> > Especiallly if we consider that the guy in front of
> > the keyboard is by far the slowest component of the computer,
> > at least as long as we discuss the usage of a full blown
> > Office Suite.
> >   
> I'm no speedy at typing from on a keyboard, and my PC isn't
> old either (P4M 1.8 Ghz 1go Ram - 2x512 with an overall
> bandwith of 800Mo/s, and a good graphic card). However, I'm
> used to typing text and know a few keyboard shortcuts. I also
> swap input methods on the same sentences between French and
> Chinese (however, the problems appears even when I don't use
> scim).
> 
> Just to say I've already had OO take some delay between the
> keyboard input and printing the letters on the screen. 

Thanks for clarification. 

That's weird indeed. I cannot understand that your computer
(which I regard to be _really_ powerful) behaves like this.
I never experienced this with OOorg, even my old
amd700/384MB/30GB Disk with Xubuntu is much quicker in displaying
on the screen than I am in typing it in at the keyboard (and
most people find my typing speed to be "quick with tenfingers").
Well ok, xubuntu resp. xfce is a much slimmer desktop than the
KDE/Gnome bloat. Admittedly, the startup of OOorg on the old Amd
takes "ages". Consequently I prefer to use
abiword there, whenever I can.

Are you sure that this is OpenOffice related? I would recommend
to look for the most basic things ex. error messages, disk
problems, dma settings, swap and the like to ensure that your
PC operates as you can expect it to work.


> more often, I've got to wait to see the effects of a shortcut.
> Not to say the worst is having to wait to see a dialog box
> when there's no shortcut for the function I want to use. Oh,
> and the eternal 10 second wait the first time I want to select
> another font.
Again, I fully agree, this is unacceptable. But at the same time,
imho this is not what it ought to work like, neither on Linux nor
on Windows.


> 
> So yeah, some might find it an easy excuse to say the guy in
> front of the keyboard is "by far the slowest component of the
> computer", but that's not going to help the guy waiting in
> front of the keyboard.

Well it's not an excuse and it is not easy for me to be
confronted with the fact that I am slower than my computer
despite my lifelong efforts to speedup my brain. ;-)))

Again, I am sure that your computer should be able to be much
quicker, in general, and also in regard to OOorg, than _I_ will
ever be. If it behaves like you describe, there is plenty of
room for improvement. ;-)

regards
Eberhard 
> 
> Cheers,
> Loïc 
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