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GnumericGnumericPosted Aug 4, 2005 13:57 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)Parent article: Our bloat problem
Gnumeric is if anything more useful for loading an MS Excel file than OpenOffice.org's spreadsheet OOCalc. Yet it loads at least an order of magnitude faster.
So the OO.org developers don't like us to say It's bloated, but what else should we say? Congratulations on your enormous application, it's very, um, well it's a, er, it's a good test of CPU and disk performance ? People who actually want to accomplish something are too busy to wait while OpenOffice.org loads.
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Gnumeric Posted Aug 4, 2005 14:41 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link] I'd say that OpenOffice will be because of its bloat a dead piece ofsoftware. Why? Because programmers that have a choice choose better architected office suits. Take Koffice. Beatifully architected, too little features. Its code size is reasonable, and it is coded in C++, a language understood by many programmers. It should be possible to get started with it. OpenOffice, on the other hand requires full knowledge about both C++ and Java, is nightmare to develop on because simply compiling it takes ages because it is so much code. You only want to develop on it if you're paid to do so, which is exactly what is happening, OpenOffice is still coded mostly by Sun employees.
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