The OpenOffice.org team has released OpenOffice.org 2.0.4. This release is mainly a bugfix release. You can download it form the OpenOffice.org website, and if you want to know if your pet bug has been fixed, have fun digging through the changelog.
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Member since:2005-11-11
//"Quickstarter" fature is what I see as ugly hack in place of fixing the bug. On my win machine Writer startup time is still WAY slower then MS Word. Of course, Quickstarter is disabled on my comp. Did they ever tought that users are closing apps because they want to free some memory? With quickstarter, closing program makes almost no difference in soffice.exe memory usage. That being said, OOo is very impressive peace of software feature-wise. If they only could fix startup time...//
Sigh!
I'm calling FUD here.
First of all, the new version speed improvements do not depend on Quickstarter.
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/71233/index.html
"Point. Click. Boom! Even without the preloader, it's still pretty darned fast. It seems to load in less than 2 seconds on a WinXP box with a 3Ghz Pentium chip and 512MB RAM."
Secondly, on Windows MS Word depends for its start time via a "quickstarter" of its own, which is built right in to Windows.
//"Quickstarter" fature is what I see as ugly hack in place of fixing the bug.//
So is this same type of preloader which operates on Windows for MS Office also an ugly hack and a bug? If not, why not (since you can't disable it on Windows, but at least you can disable the OOo quickstarter).
//Did they ever tought that users are closing apps because they want to free some memory?//
This criticism therefore applies equally well to MS Word as it does to OpenOffice and quickstarter. Except of course that you can't turn of the preloader for MS Office in Windows, but you can turn off the OOo quickstarter on any platform if you want to.
//OOo is very impressive peace of software feature-wise. If they only could fix startup time...//
Thirdly, they have fixed the startup time.
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/71233/index.html
"If OpenOffice.org is any slower than Microsoft Office, it's only by half a blip. In fact, I loaded both at once, first clicking on MS Word, then on OOWriter, in my task tray. OOWriter came up first. Trying it the other way, Word still loses out to Writer. I suspect your mileage will vary some, but OpenOffice.org is still quick as a whip."
Edited 2006-10-16 11:14
Member since:2005-08-12
RE: "Thirdly, they have fixed the startup time.
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/71233/index.html"
Instead of pointing to article with invalid benchmarks (according to my own test) do yourself a favour: install version 2.0.4 and test it. It will take some 5 minutes. Then you will see that article you a reffering to is load of BS. Windows has *NO* office components integrated and started on Windows startup that I ever heard of. Explorer has, maybe that is what you are talking about?
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2005-08-12
"Quickstarter" fature is what I see as ugly hack in place of fixing the bug. On my win machine Writer startup time is still WAY slower then MS Word. Of course, Quickstarter is disabled on my comp. Did they ever tought that users are closing apps because they want to free some memory? With quickstarter, closing program makes almost no difference in soffice.exe memory usage. That being said, OOo is very impressive peace of software feature-wise. If they only could fix startup time...