On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 07:58:03AM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
Last night I was helping some school kids with a powerpoint presentation they had written. They had, not un-reasoanbly, used FontWork titles. Under F12 with OpenOffice 3.1 it took 3 minutes to load the 10 slide file and about 1 minute between slides. Editing was basically impossible. I had to go back to a F8 system OpenOffice 2.x system to edit the FontWork out. How on earth did this "release" get out (Fedora/OpenOffice ??) ?? This is just one of many basic issues I and others have had with Fedora recently.
And where is your bug report? Anyway, there is no justification for you having used the wording that you used ('How on earth did this "release" get out (Fedora/OpenOffice ??) ?? This is just one of many basic issues I and others have had with Fedora recently.'), because:
1. Fontwork objects are 3-D objects, therefore the performance depends on graphic driver, card and so on. I just checked it and it works reasonably well on my machine (6-slide presentation with a fontwork on each slide was loaded in 10 seconds and transition between slides took a second at worst). That means there are users for whom it works without problems.
2. This upstream bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=58291 says someone had similar performance problems with fontwork in OO.o 2.0. That means it's nothing new in 3.1 (and I personally doubt there was much change in this area between 2.3 and 3.1).
3. Fontwork is just a very small piece of OO.o. Even if it had as poor performance as you describe on _every_ system, it would hardly be a blocker for release of OO.o and it's absolutely unimaginable it would be a blocker for release of Fedora. That means it can hardly be described as basic issue.
D.