Bug#488202: openoffice.org-base: even very small databases unusably slow
Hi,
Lee Lindwood wrote:
>> Did you do that? And did it fix the speed problems you experience at
>> least a bit?
>
> Yes, see the other mail.
OK.
>> If I don't receive a answer saying otherwise soon I'll handle this bug
>> as a non-bug (you missed to install openoffice.org-gcj) and therefore
>> just close it.
>
> The slowness still should be fixed. Just look at the openoffice website
> where they are saying how great openoffice is after 20 years of
I don't know about openoffice, what is that. please? ;-)
> development --- and then look at the database part and compare it to
> Microsoft Access. If they took 20 years for that, Sun should be
> ashamed ...
Just that Base is only present since 2.0.0.
> not possible ... But look at their website: "For people used to other
> office software, OpenOffice.org 2 is a pleasant surprise. It's so
> straightforward!"[1] --- Yeah, well, what's straighforward about it?
Marketing blurb.
> Hm, openoffice.org-base already suggests to install openoffice.org-gcj.
> The problem might be that a lot of packages show up when installing
> openoffice so that the eventual importance of suggested packages goes
> by unnoticed. Maybe there could be a warning/notice on installation
> telling users that they probably want openoffice.org-gcj if they are
> going to use the database?
No. Let alone this is not technically possible because you acan't sanely
find out on package install which packages get installed in the same
turn and if -gcj was installed too you should not show the warning.
Besides that, just looking at the dependencies makes it clear that the
database is mostly Java.
Regards,
Reme
Reply to: