OpenOffice 2.2 too good to be true

[Gabriel Dragffy]

NoOp wrote:
> On 03/08/2007 01:55 PM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
>>> On 03/08/2007 12:08 PM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>>>> Just installed today's updates for Feisty. Started working in Writer, 
>>>> and then I noticed the gorgeous new icons. OpenOffice now looks 
>>>> impossibly good! Very impressive :P Just wanted to share that :P
>>>>
>>> 133 updates in all...
>>>
>> 312 for me, but then I've been saving those up for a couple of days :)
>>
>>> However, be aware that OOo 2.2 is a release candidate:
>>> http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html
>>> http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.2.0rc3.html
>>> and shouldn't be used for production work yet.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> But... it looks so pretty... :P
>>
> 
> And very, very slow. I even adjusted the memory settings to match those
> of my 2.1 (OOo official version) and that helped only slightly. I have
> two identical systems side-by-side; one running dapper & OOo 2.1 (not
> the Ubuntu version) and the other running Feisty OOo 2.2 (Ubuntu)
> version. Before the change to 2.2 the 2.1 (Ubuntu) version pretty much
> matched the dapper 2.1 version... not any more. I get instant response
> from the 2.1 version, but the 2.2 version looks like it's painting the
> screen by hand. Have you noticed any difference on your system?
> 
> All other applications on Feisty seem to run just fine.
> 
> Disclaimer: my systems that I am testing are very old & slow to begin
> with. Both are 300Mhz PII 256Mb, but a good test to see what runs on old
> systems.
> 
> 

I noticed no difference in the performance on Feisty. Did notice that 
the .doc (word xp) import filters have vastly improved in OOo 2.2 though.
Just for info, I am running Feisty in Parallels on a MBP, core2duo 
2.something ghz with 2gb ram, but I have allocated only 300mb of memory 
(ram) to the Feisty VM, and it runs really sweet with that.