Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> > Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> > > James Knott wrote:
> > >  
> > > > Donald D Henson wrote:
> > > >    
> > > > > Some time ago, I remember seeing a discussion about a way to speed up
> > > > > the launch of OpenOffice.org modules. Now I can't find any reference to
> > > > > it. I can find references to 'quick launch' but that refers to putting
> > > > > icons on the quicklaunch panel. Does anyone else remember such a
> > > > > discussion or am I just going nuts in my old age? Thanks for any
> > > > > assistance.
> > > > >         
> > > > IIRC, there's a separate RPM that has to be installed for the
> > > > Quickstarter.  On my system, the first time starting OpenOffice after a
> > > > reboot takes less than 3 seconds, after that, less than 2s.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     
> > > And as a matter of principle, I never install the Quickstarter.
> > >
> > > Although I am using 2 GB of RAM, I definitely see no benefit in
> > > sacrifising memory for something that I might _poosibly_ need to start
> > > during the day.
> > >
> > > And when I start OOorg it admittedly takes a little longer, but the time
> > > it takes then, is much less than the time I need to read this mail.
> > >
> > >   
> > You're not sacrificing memory.  Should you fill that 2 GB, the least
> > recently used stuff will be sent to swap.  Linux does not have all the
> > issues that Windows does and works far more efficiently.
> I have only 1G of RAM and very seldom ever swap anything. The last time
> I can recall worrying about the amount of ram used by dormant program
> bits and pieces was programming array manipulations on my HP-28S with
> 32K of memory. I don't know how much oo quicklaunch takes, but I have
> not been affected by its absence. YMMV
OK, it does not do any harm, instead it has some positive effect..

Nevertheless please allow me to rephrase:
No matter how much RAM it takes or how much RAM I will (not) have, I
never preload anything, just on the basis that I might possibly use it
some time later on.
When I fire up OOorg it loads rather slow in comparison to the load time
of e.g. konsole or kcalc or...

On the other hand, I am unable to see any notable decrease of my office
productivity by loading OOorg "from cold" just when I need it, not
earlier, not later.

In general it might be a good long term idea, to design OpenOffice
similar to the MDI Design of it's MS counterpart.

This would save on "dirty tricks" that solely exist to convey the
illusion or impression of starting just a little quicker.

;-))

Kind regards
Eberhard

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