Re: [expert] Mandrake 9......Mozilla Quickstart?

[Sandeep Khanna]

Hi All,


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

personally, i wouldn't/don't want countless programs loading
automatically and unnecessarily, and this all begs the question -
which programs are to do this own their own?  if mozilla nad
openoffice, why not every single program loaded on every
available storage medium?

That's your choice. After all Linux is all about your choice, isn't it?

unless each program has a definable option to let me decide which
ones to pre-load, i'd much rather keep my RAM (however much or
little i may have) free to do with as i choose, not as every
program i choose to keep decides.  for openoffice, i leave it up
for as long as i forsee needing to use it - sometimes hours or
days if i do constant updates to something.  otherwise i can
afford to wait until it comes up, doing other tasks in the meantime.

I do agree with you about varying usage patterns among people and that's why all such quickstart options are put as OPTIONS and not built-ins !!! You can turn it on or off, your choice. But, Not having one is pretty bad. Not everyone loves to wait all their life for a program to load. Abd, Besides it's these things (End user experience, responsiveness of apps) which are considered by critics when comparing products.

And, Finally once again ................... Does anyone know of any quickstart products for Mozilla and OpenOffice for Mandrake 9.0 or not?

Sandeep Khanna

preloading has its place and definite benefits, but it may well
not be suitable for all; don't try to make it so.


--- Original Message ---
From: Sandeep Khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 9......Mozilla Quickstart?

Hi,


Sevatio wrote:

I've seen "quickstarts" of many kinds in Windoze, but out of curiosity: How much resources does a "quickstart" consume?

Doesn't

it preload parts of the application therefore unnecessarily

using up

resources? Why not just start it from an icon?

With RAM so cheap and sop plenty, I don't think that should be a problem. Why do people still want to go back to Windows?? One of

the

reasons being, good User Interface principles............Hourglass cursor when a program is loading, quick Browser opening, quick spreadsheet opening...etc....

Linux is known to be fast, but, applications like Mozilla, Open

Office

put shame on it's great reputation. I am sure this must not be

anyone's

intention and there must be ways to tackle this. One of them being loading portions of software during login or startup.

--Sandeep

Sandeep Khanna wrote:

Hi,

Does anybody know of Mozilla quickstart in Linux. Or there

is no

such thing !!!
Well, this feature is there in M$ Windows and not in Linux

!!!! I

thought it is an Open Source project originating in the Open

Source

World, so shouldn't it be having good killer features in

Linux atleast !

Especially when, the main place Linux is lacking good speed

is the

web browsing experience with the big lizard 'Mozilla' and Office Suite like Open Office or KOffice (all of them damn slow !!!)

Sandeep

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Sandeep Khanna
Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University
Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808


Quote of the day:

Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.
--Joan Chittister

Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com