LibreOffice releases new, faster version

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.

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.

I take it, then, that you have tried LibreOffice.

@ta --

I have, with no luck.

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?

@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.

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.

> 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.

@jdixon --

Good suggestion. I'll give it a whirl.