On Tuesday 24 March 2026 15:23:13 Andrew Randrianasulu via tde-users wrote:
ср, 25 мар. 2026 г., 00:51 William Morder via tde-users <
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And, as I said, LibreOffice is S-L-O-W. Indeed, it is so slow that mere words cannot convey its sloth. And I am not talking about startup, etc., but about ordinary use, after it has already been started. But let me give an example:
I am working on a different screen; let's say that it is graphics in gimp, or that I am working with a plain text file, and now want to copy that content in my office program. When I try switching screens back to LibreOffice, I have to wait literally 5-10 minutes just for the interface to become visible. I am looking at a blank screen. I can switch back and forth between the screens, but the LO screen is just blank,
Never saw anything like this for such long time (I think I sometimes get brief black flash) - but from what I recall both OO and LO try to use OpenGL by default, so may be turn this off or on in LO?
I went back and forth between LO and OO for a few months, but for myself, when using LibreOffice, this behavior is became the usual. I could go through days at a time, never getting anything at all done, just looking at blank screens. Then maybe, for a few brief minutes, remember to insert or change something, save that document, then wait another week or two to be able to do anything more. In the end, I could open documents in LibreOffice, look at them, but never actually work on them.
Also, abiword 3 does not work for your needs?
No, Abiword and TDE's word processor, Kword, and both too primitive for my needs. I do still need to be able to create some formatting. Also, when I convert from Abiword or Kword to another office program, OO or LO, things get messed up, and I see formatting marks in the text, etc.
Another complaint that I had about LibreOffice: its metrics are subtly different from OpenOffice. The change is very slight, only tiny fractions of an inch different; or maybe centimeters or pixels, I don't know. But it is enough that it messes up pages that I had thought that I had already set.
I am trying to make some of my pages as print-ready pdfs; not so much because I intend to make the final version as a pdf, but rather so that I can show a typesetter what are my intentions for how my pages ought to look.
I used to set type myself, for newspapers and little magazines, and I have created shorter documents as print-ready pdfs. But for this, if I can ever finish it, I believe I will need others (editors, typesetters) to help organize the materials and make them look right. But that's still a few years away.
I recall some long time ago I abused Mozilla/Seamonkey's Composer for some formatted text drafts ... But obviously formatting us limited, and complex equations probably too much pain to do this way ...
I still use Seamonkey as a browser. I never tried its other features, email, composer, etc.
I do sometimes try other word processors, just to see if there are any that might work better. I like the simplicity of some, but I still need features that only LO and OO seem to have.
Also, I imagine, there are proprietary word processors out there that have these features (e.g., Microsoft Word, and whatever Apple has to offer). But nowadays, I stick with free, as in free beer, as well as free as in freedom.
Bill