I want my Galeon back!!!

[Jan Arne Petersen]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:05 +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 23:27, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:27:43PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> 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.

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+.

Jan Arne Petersen