Written by grofaty the 19 Feb 09 at 13:12.

Speed up OpenOffice when starting. Probably not all features should be loaded when starting program. When some one needs some feature it could be loaded on demand.

Speed up OpenOffice when starting. Probably not all features should be loaded when starting program. When some one needs some feature it could be loaded on demand.

Written by jeypeyy the 19 Feb 09 at 20:04.

OpenOffice is written with "Native Widget Framework" (http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/ooo-nwf.html ) and that might be a reason why it is so slow*. Also it integrates badly with gnome. If we helped an alternative written in c/c++ and with gtk+ it could be faster.

The developers could help developing alternatives like AbiWord and Gnumeric. There should also be an integration between those applications before Ubuntu decides to change.

*Note that I'm not sure if this really is the reason. If it's not, please leave a comment and vote this down.

OpenOffice is written with "Native Widget Framework" (http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/ooo-nwf.html ) and that might be a reason why it is so slow*. Also it integrates badly with gnome. If we helped an alternative written in c/c++ and with gtk+ it could be faster. The developers could help developing alternatives like AbiWord and Gnumeric. There should also be an integration between those applications before Ubuntu decides to change. *Note that I'm not sure if this really is the reason. If it's not, please leave a comment and vote this down.

Written by OpenNingia the 5 Mar 09 at 11:20.

For those people who needs faster openoffice, Ubuntu should provide a task that preloads some OOO's libraries or modules on system start, that will increase booting time but decrease OOO start time.

This behaviour should be optional.

For those people who needs faster openoffice, Ubuntu should provide a task that preloads some OOO's libraries or modules on system start, that will increase booting time but decrease OOO start time. This behaviour should be optional.

Written by Mishtal the 17 Mar 09 at 20:14.

There are ways to use C and C++ functions from interpreted languages like Java. The parts of OpenOffice that are the major bottlenecks could be transitioned to C/C++, or other compiled languages.
This gives us the benefit of keeping all the current features of OpenOffice, in addition to allowing new features to be added without significant changes in the implementation of these new features compared with the implementation of them on a non-transitioning OpenOffice

There are ways to use C and C++ functions from interpreted languages like Java. The parts of OpenOffice that are the major bottlenecks could be transitioned to C/C++, or other compiled languages. This gives us the benefit of keeping all the current features of OpenOffice, in addition to allowing new features to be added without significant changes in the implementation of these new features compared with the implementation of them on a non-transitioning OpenOffice

Written by Basem the 23 Mar 09 at 08:14.

Open Office is great, but i cant stop feeling its starting to lag behind in terms of features...ubuntu should start giving Sun some support.

Open Office is great, but i cant stop feeling its starting to lag behind in terms of features...ubuntu should start giving Sun some support.

Written by broomfighter the 27 Jul 09 at 22:34.

Abiword, while less featureful than OO, is light and fast. Plus, it's written natively in gtk, so it supports theming.

Abiword, while less featureful than OO, is light and fast. Plus, it's written natively in gtk, so it supports theming.

Written by mikko.rantalainen the 7 Oct 10 at 08:15.

Starting the Open Office Writer 3.2 needs OS to load 1575 files. You can try this yourself:

strace -f -e trace=open oowriter 2>&1 | perl -npe 's/^[[]pid \d+[]] *//' | grep ^open | sort -u | wc -l

(Some of the files on that list are "file not found" but it still asks OS to try to load all those files.) A reasonable way to improve start up time would be to get it to load less files during startup. Whether this is implemented as Solution #1 (load files ondemand) or as some another solution (e.g. reimplement some functionality to have simpler implementation and not tons of code in a thousand separate files).

Starting the Open Office Writer 3.2 needs OS to load 1575 files. You can try this yourself: strace -f -e trace=open oowriter 2>&1 | perl -npe 's/^[[]pid \d+[]] *//' | grep ^open | sort -u | wc -l (Some of the files on that list are "file not found" but it still asks OS to try to load all those files.) A reasonable way to improve start up time would be to get it to load less files during startup. Whether this is implemented as Solution #1 (load files ondemand) or as some another solution (e.g. reimplement some functionality to have simpler implementation and not tons of code in a thousand separate files).

Written by andrewpmk the 11 Jan 09 at 01:59.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #17192 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #17192 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by Lyfang the 19 Jul 11 at 15:56.

GNOME Office consists of the following core applications:

AbiWord word processor
Evince document viewer
Evolution groupware and e-mail application
Gnumeric spreadsheet
Inkscape vector graphics editor
Ease presentation tool

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Office

GNOME Office consists of the following core applications: AbiWord word processor Evince document viewer Evolution groupware and e-mail application Gnumeric spreadsheet Inkscape vector graphics editor Ease presentation tool Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Office