[plug] KDE 2.2's Kpresenter broken?

[sol]

I've had the same problems with Kpresenter. IMO, it's still unstable, as 
are other KOffice apps like KSpread which often chokes on .xls files. 
The KOffice people haven't been as vigilante about import/export filters 
as the Gnome Office people. That said, there seems to me to be some good 
concepts behind what they're doing, like the KParts integration. It'll 
just be a while before this comes to fruition.

BTW, I've got an Athlon 800/396 and that doesn't help all that much when 
it comes to KOffice instability.

Re: KDE; my baby bro was telling me that KDE 3.0 is 40% faster than 2.2 
(though he often exaggerates). KDE 3.0 hasn't come to Sid yet but I'm 
interested to see this for myself. I've no idea how they could do this 
but it would be a very impressive achievement at a time when 'doze gets 
twice as slow with each release.

sol

Denis Brown wrote:

>Plug members,
>
>I have a feeling that KDE 2.2 has been superceded but it is
>the latest to be had via Debian's "apt-get install kde" for Woody.  The
>problem I have is that Kpresenter routinely gags on .ppt files created in
>MS Office97's PowerPoint.
>
>Depending on the size of the incoming ppt, small ones just
>cause it to disappear after a minute or so while large presentations with
>lots of images cause it to pretty much lock up the box so that even
>ssh/telnet sessions are not possible and mouse movements
>unresponsive.  During these "lockups" enormous disk activity is happening.
>
>Not especially fussed as I'll grab the 3.whatever sources and compile but
>was just curious as to whether others had experienced similar
>effects.  Hardware is an IBM 300PL with 200MHz MMX cpu, 64MB memory.  Not
>the punchiest of machines but interesting that Deb + KDE runs faster than
>its original Windows livery (W95 iirc).  I would have thought that with
>the extra layers of software (X) that things might have been
>slower.  Happily not.
>
>Is this sort of thing (the KDE misbehaviour) worth reporting to either
>Debian or KDE?  I have seen KDE bug 45052 filed recently which reports a
>similar effect in RH from their 7.2 release.
>
>TIA,
>Denis
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