Why is OpenOffice slow?

[Jack Bowling]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:46:04AM +0100, use_real_email_ulist at ohiggins.ubuntu.com wrote:
> 
> GNOME is consistently speeding up - dapper features great improvements
> in speed and responsiveness over breezy.
> 
> OpenOffice is not an entirely native GTK+ app - it has some hacks to
> make it blend in better, but its slow performance can be blamed on its
> architecture, size, and needless complexity.
> 
> I strongly recommend trying AbiWord - it's a light, fast word processor
> with basically all the features you'll need, plus state-of-the-art
> equation editing (based on LaTeX) and OpenDocument import/export for
> interoperation with OpenOffice.
> 
> Granted, my viewpoint might be a little biased, but I got involved with
> AbiWord a long time ago because it already met my needs then, and it has
> only gotten more capable...
> 
> AbiWord (and/or abiword-gnome) is available in the Ubuntu Apt
> Repository (Synaptic)
> 
> --Ryan, AbiWord dev and win32 maintainer
> AbiWord Community Outreach Project

Thanks for the reminder, Ryan. Just installed Abiword and it has come a
long way since the last time I fired it up. Congrats to you and your team.

Jack