Jean asks: > I'd like to know what to write in the "Starting OOo" chapter of the Getting > Started guide. What the heck is the Quickstarter *for*? Why bother with it?
About the only thing I wanted to read before trying OO.o follows: The quick starter loads library (.dll) files required by OO.o components in advance, shortening the startup for OO.o components by about half. The times change from slightly more than 1 minute without quickstart to about 30 seconds with for 1.9.69 on my Athlon 750 Mhz 200 MHz frontside bus 130 MHz 7200 RPM disks using XP.) You might want to give different numbers, as any $500 machine bought today is likely to be a lot faster. As you and others point out, on earlier versions right clicking produced a menu of links for starting the several OO.o components. I liked this feature. As you read, this follows Microsoft application guidelines closely, I think too closely. Warm Regards, David Teague, Advocating Free Software and Double Bass tuned in fifths www.dennismasuzzo.com www.silviodallatorre.com www.joelquarrington.com/ For information on Red Mitchell, see http://home.teleport.com/~mimuma/ www.larryholloway.com http://cs.wcu.edu/~dbt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Hollis Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [authors] OOo2.0 Quickstarter on Windows? > I now understand that the components don't pop up at all any more. I've > read the issue on the subject; thanks for the pointer to it. > > What I don't understand is what the Quickstarter does, if anything, when it > is loaded into the system tray. Clicking (or double clicking) on it has no > effect; OOo does not start. > > Is it supposed to speed up the opening of OOo when you start OOo some other > way? I haven't seen any evidence of that, though I haven't done a carefully > timed test. > > I'd like to know what to write in the "Starting OOo" chapter of the Getting > Started guide. What the heck is the Quickstarter *for*? Why bother with it? > > Thanks, Jean > >
