OpenOffice 2.2 too good to be true

[NoOp]

On 03/08/2007 01:55 PM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 03/08/2007 12:08 PM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>>> Just installed today's updates for Feisty. Started working in Writer, 
>>> and then I noticed the gorgeous new icons. OpenOffice now looks 
>>> impossibly good! Very impressive :P Just wanted to share that :P
>>>
>> 
>> 133 updates in all...
>> 
> 
> 312 for me, but then I've been saving those up for a couple of days :)
> 
>> However, be aware that OOo 2.2 is a release candidate:
>> http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html
>> http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.2.0rc3.html
>> and shouldn't be used for production work yet.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> But... it looks so pretty... :P
> 

And very, very slow. I even adjusted the memory settings to match those
of my 2.1 (OOo official version) and that helped only slightly. I have
two identical systems side-by-side; one running dapper & OOo 2.1 (not
the Ubuntu version) and the other running Feisty OOo 2.2 (Ubuntu)
version. Before the change to 2.2 the 2.1 (Ubuntu) version pretty much
matched the dapper 2.1 version... not any more. I get instant response
from the 2.1 version, but the 2.2 version looks like it's painting the
screen by hand. Have you noticed any difference on your system?

All other applications on Feisty seem to run just fine.

Disclaimer: my systems that I am testing are very old & slow to begin
with. Both are 300Mhz PII 256Mb, but a good test to see what runs on old
systems.