Speeding up LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org

[exploder]

LibreOffice loads so much faster than OpenOffice,org that I don't really see why one would need a quickstarter.

I was thinking the same thing. 

[AndrzejL]

LibreOffice loads so much faster than OpenOffice,org that I don't really see why one would need a quickstarter.

I was thinking the same thing. 

Well I need it. I like to have the Office apps in tray under 1 click / loading fast when I need them.

Andy

[menotu]

LibreOffice loads so much faster than OpenOffice,org that I don't really see why one would need a quickstarter.

I was thinking the same thing.  

For me it's just a bit more added convenience (which is high on my list   )

I "think" the qstart.desktop file should be in

/opt/libreoffice/share/xdg/

and KDE Autostart (link?) something like

/opt/libreoffice/program/../share/xdg/qstart.desktop

But 3.4 doesn't have them it seems?

[aguila]

There is no 'fast enough' unless it opens in the same n-th of the second I hit the button 

On the other hand I don't care if the start-up takes ten seconds longer. So where the #&%¥@ is that damn thing? 

[pinoc]

The "old" quickstarter is no longer available in LO3.4. If you check in /opt/libreoffice3.4/share/xdg then you will find the quickstart which does the same as the startcenter.
-p.

[gseaman]

Libreoffice starts as quick as openoffice did with quickstarter for me. This isn't a really fast system, either.

Galen

[AndrzejL]

This start center is no good to me.

What I need is something that sits in the tray quietly and waits for me.

Andy

[pinoc]

This start center is no good to me.

What I need is something that sits in the tray quietly and waits for me.

Andy

and that is gone with LO3.4 

[aguila]

Maybe we can get it back as a add-on? (goes searching...)

[gseaman]

This start center is no good to me.

What I need is something that sits in the tray quietly and waits for me.

Andy

and that is gone with LO3.4 

You can get the same effect by opening startcenter, then starting kdocker and clicking on the startcenter window. It will dock in the system tray out of the way. The only downside is that I don't know how to get kdocker to autostart with and application. I'm pretty sure that it can be done, though.

Galen

[aguila]

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kdocker application maybe?

[menotu]

What I need is something that sits in the tray quietly and waits for me.

+1

I use just like my other panel icons - FFox, Dolphin, PCC etc etc - useful having easy access to an app that's used reasonably often.

Did a quick web search and it seems to be affecting some Windows users where its opening the main StartCentre window instead of Quickstarter (which I think confuses some users) so mebbe the LO devs decided to take it out until a fix is in place.

Version 3.3.3 which was released the other day still has it.

From my perspective I think we can "allow" them this hiccup considering the pace (and how much cleaner the suite has got) since they started work on it........

[pinoc]

just installed 3.3.3 alongside 3.4.0 and checked the setup of the quickstarter in 3.3.3. Couldn't find a way to patch this for 3.4.0 and the fact that it does no longer appear in the Options-Memory for 3.4 indicates that it was, at least temporarily, disabled for some good reason. On the other hand and due to an immense code-cleanup, LO3.4 starts substantially faster than 3.3. Maybe the LO-devs will fix the quickstarter with the upcoming 3.4.1 towards the end of this month.
-p.

[Bald Brick]

My point was just that after a reboot launching LibreOffice Writer takes less than five seconds on my main machine even without a quickstarter. Subsequent launches take under two seconds -- usually just slightly over one second. It starts so much faster than my last version of OOo that I still find it hard to believe. So who needs a quickstarter?

[pinoc]

the quickstarter provides a handy way to launch any LO-application quickly from the panel. In fact it keeps an instance of LO running in the background (similar to having the LO-startcenter running continuously) and for this reason any LO-app starts quicker. But it also needs to be closed to properly close LO.  Personally I don't miss it too much as any LO3.4 app starts very quickly anyway.
-p.