Splashscreen for OpenOffice.org 2.0 Wanted 68
An anonymous reader writes "From the OOo site: 'OpenOffice.org 2.0 is coming fast and it needs a new splashscreen. You can help. Send us your best by 10 December and it might be seen on the desktops of tens upon tens of millions next year.' For more information, visit the OpenOffice.org website."
More on Openoffice.org 2.0 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What we need more (from a member of OOo Marketi (Score:2, Informative)
I would also like to get feedback on if there would be interest in an ISO of the disk I give out. I would be more than willing to host it if there was interest.
Judge 2.0 on it's own merits ... (Score:4, Informative)
Yes, we are a bit slow at times, but you also have to remember that we don't use OS hooks to help it load quicker. MSO, AbiWord, etc, all have integrated hooks to help it load faster (libs are already loaded).
Try a developer snapshot of OOo 2.0, and then decide.
Here you go (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Judge 2.0 on it's own merits ... (Score:4, Informative)
MS Office has a program that (by default) loads at the same time as the shell does (after you log on) to precache binaries. This is the same thing that the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter does.
The only other thing that MSO does to load faster is that it uses common libraries that other programs, like the shell, use (like for OLE and COM) instead of re-inventing the wheel; something that OO.org can't do heavily because it would make them too dependent on a single platform, whose libraries they are not free to distribute.
What else could it be doing?
Personally, I don't think either one starts very fast, but not intolerably slow either.