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Gnumeric
Gnumeric
Posted 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.