From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: Open Office takes 10-12 seconds to load on my p2 333mhz computer with 400+ megs of ram. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Open Office 2.Wait... 3. Actual Results: It takes too long, especailly for users coming from Windows who expect their Office applications to load automatically. Expected Results: For Open Office to load more quickly. Additional info: I know that MS Office is loaded into memory already unlike Open Office, but many desktop users expect their Office applications to load quickly. There are ways to load Open Office into memory, and would be nice to provide an option to the end-user to enable a 'quick-start' for Open Office. It it very annoying when I receive an email at work with a Word attatchment and have to wait 10-12 seconds before reading it.
If you start OpenOffice.org with /usr/bin/ooffice -quickstart -plugin then next time you'll run ooffice, it will come out faster (but when you exit it it will take its time again). prelink(8) can save some time from the startup too, but some libraries will have to be added DT_RPATH dynamic tags for it. There is certainly lots of room for improvement, but our priority for this release has been to make sure it works, the next step will be to optimize what can be optimized easily (and to themeize it etc.).
Created attachment 90241 [details] A simple quickstart shell script to keep OOO in memory Put this script in /usr/bin add "quicko" to your session (Extras->Preferences->Sessions) OOO will start quicker and stay in memory after being closed.
Somewhat fixed with prelinking and preloading in 1.1. Will not be fixed in 1.0.x series.