[25939] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.3.11: nautilus/soffice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Aug 16 17:11:19 2004
Message-Id: <200408162110.i7GLAJr3021858@opus.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:10:19 -0400
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@mit.edu>
cc: jmorzins@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: opus.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.3.11 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
Shell: /bin/sh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
Edit a *.doc file.
What's wrong:
Double-clicking on the *.doc file gives no user feedback for
90 seconds, and then a (StarOffice) splash screen appears.
From the splash screen, it takes another 30 seconds to
finish opening the document.
The long delay is very confusing to general users, and
thoroughly confused me as well.
What should have happened:
It'd be nice if *.doc files opened in less than two minutes.
After I've launched StarOffice the first time, subsequent
launches become much faster. (After a launch-and-quit, the
next launch puts up a splash screen in 5 seconds and opens
the document in the next 5 seconds.) This suggests that
bringing the locker "local" would solve the problem.
There was some discussion on zephyr about whether soffice or
ooffice were already local; if one is already local, the
default *.doc handler could be pointed at the local app.
(If there is no way to bring the *.doc handler local,
perhaps it would be worthwhile writing our own splash screen
so that the user has some feedback about the launching
application.)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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Thanks for listening,
-Jacob
