I want my Galeon back!!!

[Doug Stewart]

Jan Arne Petersen wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:05 +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 23:27, Alan Cox wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:27:43PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
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>>>>it is an incredible piece of crap.  Start gnumeric and try browsing
>>>>its help.  Yelp needed 4 (FOUR) CPU minutes to display something on
>>>>a PII/400 and it was not a RAM problem but the stupid thing trying
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>>>I think you have a problem. WIth FC2t1 it takes a celeron 800 about 10 seconds
>>>from hitting the help menu item to getting the complete formatted index.
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>>It was a vanilla, out of the box FC1, swapping was nil and there was no
>>other activity.  The four minutes was not elapsed time but CPU time
>>(read through PS).  The help displayed was not the general Gnome index
>>(quite fast) but the Gnumeric one.  While rendering the Gnumeric help
>>yelp polluted my home directory with a lot of html files.   From memory,
>>the box was configured for US/English as default language.
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>You should try it again with FC2. Yelp 2.6 is really fast (you cannot
>compare it with the previous versions) it takes 2-3 seconds to render
>the Gnumeric help with an Athlon XP 2200+.
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>Jan Arne Petersen
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That still doesn't change the fact that he's right: I, too, want my 
Galeon back, dangnabbit!  And, to be contrary, for web browsing, and 
nothing more.

-Doug Stewart