I'm using OpenOffice 1.1 on an optimized gentoo linux installation running on an Athlon XP 1900+ 256MB and 80GB Western Digital special edition harddrive and it still takes about 50 seconds to load for the first time if no quickstarting is used.Even after loading it still feels like a java app with slight delays in menu appearance, although I'm sure whatever parts of OO are written in java have been compiled to native code.In short, performance is STILL a major issue not to mention the UI could use some tweaking ex: icons are flat and not easy to distinguish at a glance, menu items placed in strange places. I have a professor who exports lecture notes to WordXP from Openoffice and images are always placed in the wrong location in his document, sometimes on the wrong page, although he is probably not using 1.1. Don't kid yourself, OO needs some serious work. Hopefully the developers will work to improve on the existing features before adding anything new in the next release.
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I'm using OpenOffice 1.1 on an optimized gentoo linux installation running on an Athlon XP 1900+ 256MB and 80GB Western Digital special edition harddrive and it still takes about 50 seconds to load for the first time if no quickstarting is used.Even after loading it still feels like a java app with slight delays in menu appearance, although I'm sure whatever parts of OO are written in java have been compiled to native code.In short, performance is STILL a major issue not to mention the UI could use some tweaking ex: icons are flat and not easy to distinguish at a glance, menu items placed in strange places. I have a professor who exports lecture notes to WordXP from Openoffice and images are always placed in the wrong location in his document, sometimes on the wrong page, although he is probably not using 1.1. Don't kid yourself, OO needs some serious work. Hopefully the developers will work to improve on the existing features before adding anything new in the next release.