Steven Darnold wrote: > I think somebody (here?) said that Ted might need Gimp. Is that > correct? If so, it would increase the footprint considerably.
No. This is not correct Steven. I have it running here on my P90 on a Vectorlinux install WITHOUT Gimp. Ted is a more or less self-contained package, it seems to me. I sent an LDD output for Ted to the list recently: did you see it? I can post it again, if needed. > As far as speed goes, I would be grateful James (or somebody) > would do some Ted-vs-Abiword timings (on the same machine). > How long does each take to boot? How long does each take to > scroll from the top of a long document to the bottom? How > long does each take to spell check a long document? How > reponsive is the keyboard (when you press a key quickly several > times, how well does it keep up)? Ok. I'll perform some tests, since I have both installed here. I have to say that preliminary tests show that Ted seems overly slow on some things, e.g., initial opening of a long document. Opening of formatting menus seems quite slow as well. I'll try and attach some conrete figures to those impressions soon. The interface is nice: the more I use it, the more I'm beginning to like it. It is simple, yet powerful. In terms of stability, this latest release (2.12) has performed admirably. I think I've mentioned that I had some stability problems with the previous release. Abiword, on the other hand, has unceremoniously crashed on me at least once. It simply disappeared from the screen as I was attempting to do something (don't recall exactly what: I know I had 2 documents open at the time, both of which vanished from the screen). To its credit, perhaps, afterward I noted 2 newly created documents in my home dir, each named exactly as those that had been open when the crash occurred - except that they had the extension ".crashed". Seems like a nice safety feature. Anyway, my preliminary feeling is that Ted is going to be a bit slower. We'll see. I'll try and perform some timing tests soon and post them to the list. James To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
