Why is OpenOffice slow?

[Loïc Martin]

Eberhard Roloff a écrit :
> Especiallly if we consider that the guy in front of
> the keyboard is by far the slowest component of the computer,
> at least as long as we discuss the usage of a full blown Office
> Suite.
>   
I'm no speedy at typing from on a keyboard, and my PC isn't old either 
(P4M 1.8 Ghz 1go Ram - 2x512 with an overall bandwith of 800Mo/s, and a 
good graphic card). However, I'm used to typing text and know a few 
keyboard shortcuts. I also swap input methods on the same sentences 
between French and Chinese (however, the problems appears even when I 
don't use scim).

Just to say I've already had OO take some delay between the keyboard 
input and printing the letters on the screen. And more often, I've got 
to wait to see the effects of a shortcut. Not to say the worst is having 
to wait to see a dialog box when there's no shortcut for the function I 
want to use. Oh, and the eternal 10 second wait the first time I want to 
select another font.

So yeah, some might find it an easy excuse to say the guy in front of 
the keyboard is "by far the slowest component of the computer", but 
that's not going to help the guy waiting in front of the keyboard.

Cheers,
Loïc