Fedora 16 KDE spin questions

[Steve Greene]

Hello Kevin,

Regarding the LibreOffice install, I just instructed yum to install
libreoffice, with no -kde after it. That said, I was able to overcome
the protracted time load by simply converting the two books to ODF
format instead of .doc format. In ODF, the native libreoffice format,
the book that was taking 5 minutes to load now takes only 12 seconds!
Apparently, it takes time for the program to read a .doc format. But
beyond that, the laptop was suffering some serious issues today while
working on some large files in GIMP, so I am becoming more convinced
than ever that I have a failing hard drive. I suspect that the hard
drive issue may also be at play with Libre Office, but am not sure. I
may just install a new solid state drive in the laptop, either that or
get a new and more powerful laptop instead (perhaps a Sony or Asus).
All this while trying to get the new book finished and off to the
publisher! Ahh, the joys of a full life! Take care. - Steve

On 1/11/12, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> 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
>
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