OpenOffice.org 2.4 released [LWN.net]

OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

Posted Mar 28, 2008 17:54 UTC (Fri) by beoba (guest, #16942)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released by allesfresser
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

I've used it on a 1.33ghz Powerbook, it freezes for about 5 seconds any time that the file is
saved to disk. This includes the periodic automatic saves.

I get periodic draw artifacts within the window, but this at least hides the godawful font
spacing problems that it has when the window is clear.

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5 seconds? You are sooo lucky!

Posted Mar 31, 2008 8:56 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I have a spreadsheet with 30'000 URL's and some numbers attached to them. When OpenOffice.org decides to autosave this beast it freezes for 30-40 seconds! Not matter what I use: Windows or Linux (I don't have Mac) it's VERY annoying.

You can say it's pretty big file, but still - it's just 500Kb .ods! Autosave is big problem for such files: without autosave you risk losing your work and with autosave you are losing significant productive time (30-40seconds every 15 minutes or so - that's 15min per day).