Hi!
I have enjoyed Gnumeric for several years. It was fast and small - faster and smaller than OOO spreadsheet. It was simple to modify the max number of columns and compile again. So it was until I updated my OpneSUSE-11.4 and Gnumeric-1.10.17 to OpenSUSE-12.3 and Gnumeric-1.12.0-2.1.4.
The first impression was badly surprising - so much screen space is wasted for large icons and high taskbars. I cannot find in preferences how to make they smaller. The cells are very large. I modified the standard row height and column width and closed the window. Starting gnumeric again the cells are large again. How to change the default cell size? Sould I modify the cell size in the source code?
In the announcement of the 1.12.x series on 18 Dec 2012 we can read:
* Gnumeric is slightly faster and uses slightly less memory for large workbooks.
* Start-up time has been improved by embedding, for example, the user interface
files into the executable.
My experience is just opposite. It takes longer to start, and it takes a lot of time to close numerous windows. On my Intel i7-2600 3.4GHz PC, 8G RAM running openSUSE-12.3 and FVWM2 takes closing of ten small spreadsheets (70 columns and 220 rows) about five minutes. The xosview shows that a CPU is running 100%, no other CPU-intensive processes.
When starting gnumeric from xterm I got an error messages:
** (gnumeric:28804): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files.
Some more messages appear during working on sheets:
** (gnumeric:23147): CRITICAL **: atk_bridge_adaptor_cleanup: assertion `inited' failed
I compiled Gnumeric gnumeric-1.12.0 from source, the configuration summary is:
Compiler: gcc
Compiler flags: -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wsign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Wchar-subscripts
-Wwrite-strings -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wnested-externs
-Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
-Wno-pointer-sign -Werror=format-security
Floating point type: double
UI: Gtk
Perl Support: yes (using perl)
Python Support: yes (using python)
GDA support: Disabled by request
GNOME-DB support: no
Psiconv support: yes
PDF documentation: No, not requested.
I got still the same warnings and error messages.
Is there any way to get Gnumeric as fast as were the previous versions.
Should I try some previous version?
Thanks for suggestions.
Andres Kuusk
Tartu Observatory, Estonia.
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