Fedora 16 KDE spin questions

[Kevin Kofler]

Steve Greene wrote:
> Question 3): I am a writer, and am halfway through my next book. I was
> using OpenOffice Writer with Fedora 12 with no issues. With Fedora 16
> KDE, when I issued an install order for yum regarding OpenOffice
> Writer, it defaulted to LibreOffice Writer, which apparently is the
> preferred app for this OS spin. In any event, to open my book file,
> which is only 1.5 MB of text (no graphics), it requires a full 5
> minutes to load into LibreOffice Writer. Is this normal??? When I
> launch my prior book, which is 9.0 MB of text only, it takes a
> whopping 21 minutes to load. These times are FAR in excess of the load
> times with OpenOffice Writer in Fedora 12. The computer has a 1.2 GHz
> Celeron processor with 1.5 GB of RAM, same as in Fedora 12. Is Fedora
> 16 using so much system resources that this sluggish load time is
> expected, If this is all normal, I can live with it, but it sure seems
> odd to me.

Is libreoffice-kde installed? If not, does installing it help? If yes, does 
uninstalling it or running OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome libreoffice-writer help?

        Kevin Kofler