Open Ofiice bloat?

[The Anti-Void]

Ten seconds to load on an Athlon 2200. Does that sound reasonable? Heck mozilla loads in less than three. Is anyone out there working on an Open Office Lite? What are your load times for this thing? And What can be done to speed this up?

[Molecule Man]

Look at your hdd indicator led. Mine is virtually constant when OO is starting up. A faster hdd would make it load faster. One could also do tricks like MS Office and load most of the libs when you start the computer. The other options are programing ones. If it was built in QT or GDK/GTK+ it would probably load faster in KDE or GNOME.

Depending on what you need, there are other options. Abiword is pretty good for a light Word processor, and the stable release will have tables suport soon, the cvs builds already do.

Gnumeric is probably the best spreadsheet program. It also has excellent compatibility with excel.

Kpresenter is easily the equal of OO Impress. And the whole Koffice suite is pretty nice.

[bartendercorey]

When I was on www.openoffice.org. I read a faq that they are working on the load time. This is a issue on all systems linux/windows. On may PIII 700 laptap with 392mb ram it takes that long also.:rolleyes:

[gonzo6111]

i got redhat 8 and comes with this. I read this post and i had to try it to see if i have that type of problem and i don't see it loads good to me no faster or slower then window word or any office product. I post so u have one user that has it and don't see a load problem i don't know if i have that loader timer or what.

[z0mbix]

Athlon XP 2000+ here and same slow start up time. I don't mind as I'm not a heavy user. In-fact, since I installed OO about 3 months ago I've only used it about 4 times. I think it's worth waiting for though, once loaded, OO is excellent. Let's just hope they can get the load times greatly reduced in the near future :)

I remember loading Star Office 5.2 on my PIII 450MHz with 768MB RAM which took several minutes and just wasn't useable :(

[evilcartman]

I use Koffice on my KDE Desktop. Its pretty fast.

[mrBen]

I use OO.o on my PII 300 with 128Mb RAM - it _does_ take an age to load, but once it has loaded it's the bees knees IMHO. I think they have done an excellent job with it so far, and I'm sure that they'll crack the load time problems. I mainly use it to create Presentations which I then export to Powerpoint. IIRC Kpresenter wasn't that hot at that (although I don't have kde on my system at all at the moment so can't test it).

I just do other things while its loading :) Thats the beauty of _real_ multitasking.

[jglen490]

I'm sorry, but I just have to laugh at this one :D !!

What is wrong with a program loading in 10 seconds? Even if you could load part of it at boot time and part of later when you actually invoke OO.o, it would still take a total of 10 seconds, or two minutes or whatever is normal for your system.

Let's get real here - a 10 second load time will not kill you, unreasonably stressing out over a 10 second load will kill you -- and we don't need that to happen to anyone in our community ;) !!