On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:08, JoeHill wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance
Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO site, there is an FAQ which I *believe* explains this. If not, Google: openoffice + "open faster".
There's a utility for Gnome/KDE called, er, Oooq or something similar - I remember Sir Robin mentioning it - I downloaded it and installed it, but after the first time, I didn't want to use it anymore. It preloads Oo and gives you "quick start" options...lesseee...what's it called...
AH - "oooqs-1.0-0.rc3.2mdk.586.rpm"
...got it offa one of the contrib mirrors...reckon it mighta been Planetmirror...
It's worth having if you're using 1.0 and have the spare RAM.
1.1 Beta seems to be quicker. From the command line
soffice
on its own opens the program without a document (this may change back to the 1.0 default of opening with a blank document). It takes 12 seconds on my home machine (PII 366MHz, 224MB RAM).
soffice --quickstart
opens with a document based on the default template, which as I have it set up is the same thing as
soffice -n /user/templates/nalan.stw
It takes 17 seconds.
This is noticably faster than 1.0 without quickstart (which I don't use on my home machine, since I need all the RAM I can get for serious stuff like eye-candy). On my office machine (PIII 1GHz, 256MB RAM), it opens in about the same time as 1.0 with Quickstart enabled.
Moral: get 1.1. It's still at Beta2, but the Linux version seems pretty stable. Most of the problems I've seen on the users list are about Windows builds (no surprise there).
Sir Robin
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