It certainly loads much faster
|
| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| tracyanne Feb 09, 2013 9:04 PM EDT |
after the first time. The first time load is probably no faster than before. So obviously there is a stub retained in memory. I don't think much of Personas, I tried several, and all they really did was make the menu and tool bars difficult to see. It was only after I found a graduated grey persona call Silver2 that I got something that actually looked good. I've only had a very short look at LibreOffice, but so far my impression is that most of the changes are under the hood, so to speak. |
| dinotrac Feb 10, 2013 12:13 AM EDT |
So....unrelated question... Going through my archives, I came upon a number of old kword files. Anybody know a good available app that can read/convert those? Looks like koffice went belly-up last year, and Calligra doesn't like the file format. |
| tracyanne Feb 10, 2013 12:28 AM EDT |
I take it, then, that you have tried LibreOffice. |
| dinotrac Feb 10, 2013 1:29 AM EDT |
@ta -- I have, with no luck. |
| rnturn Feb 10, 2013 1:49 AM EDT |
Quoting:"The first time load is probably no faster than before. So obviously there is a stub retained in memory." Ugh... That might be useful for people who live in their word processor all day (but for those folks, why would they need a faster restart? After loading it in the morning just keep it up) but for occasional users (like me) we shut the program down because we're done with it. I want that memory back for use by other programs. The version of LO on my lowly Dell laptop loads and is ready for input in about 5-6 seconds. How impatient does one need to be to be griping about that, apparently, interminable wait? |
| tracyanne Feb 10, 2013 2:26 AM EDT |
@rnturn, yeah the first time load of the new version (4.0) of LibreOffice is still about the same as OpenOffice, and the previous version of LibreOffice (3.6 on my machine) 5 to 6 seconds sounds about right. Subsequent loads take about 1 second, on my rig. |
| tracyanne Feb 10, 2013 3:11 AM EDT |
Interestingly I can't find any process that seems related to LibreOffice, when I shut down LibreOffice, which suggests there is no stub in memory. |
| jdixon Feb 10, 2013 11:46 AM EDT |
> I came upon a number of old kword files. Anybody know a good available app that can read/convert those? Know of, no. But a quck search on the problem turns up this hint from the openoffice fora: "Edit: It seems Abiword have a plugin for kword files: http://www.abisource.com/wiki/PluginMatrix " So I'd try Abiword and see if that plugin works. One of my many problems with KDE is that they do seem to abandon a lot of software. |
| dinotrac Feb 10, 2013 1:42 PM EDT |
@jdixon -- Good suggestion. I'll give it a whirl. |
Posting in this forum is limited to members of the group: [ForumMods, SITEADMINS, MEMBERS.]
Becoming a member of LXer is easy and free. Join Us!