From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 12:45:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143D116A4B3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18CD43F75 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.124]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20031012194521.HQSB6394.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:45:21 +0100 Received: from scott by llama.fishballoon.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 1A8m8m-000K3M-Jx; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:44:32 +0100 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:44:32 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Martin Kotulla Message-ID: <20031012194432.GD72176@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <3F846E0C.6030001@softmaker.de> <20031011112012.GA55541@llama.fishballoon.org> <3F87EAD8.7040401@softmaker.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F87EAD8.7040401@softmaker.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 i386 Sender: Scott Mitchell cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TextMaker for FreeBSD trial now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:45:24 -0000 On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:34:48PM +0200, Martin Kotulla wrote: > Scott: > > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > >Hi Martin, > > > >One thing I've noticed after a few minutes playing with the TextMaker > >trial - whenever I pop up a dialog (File->Open or whatever), system load > >shoot up to 97% and stays there until the dialog is closed. It seems to > >be spinning in the X server, keeping itself as the active window and on > >top of all other windows. Interestingly, this doesn't happen if I turn > >off 'Window Manager Dialogs' in the Look&Feel preferences. > > > Doesn't happen here with FreeBSD 4.8, freshly installed with WindowMaker > running. Anybody else experience this? Well, as I say it's probably something in my setup. I know when my customers come up with weird complaints like this it almost always turns out to be something misconfigured at their end :-) X & KDE are overdue for an upgrade, which may well make this go away, and in any case there's a workaround, so it's no big deal. One other thing - am I right in thinking that TextMaker's Word import doesn't handle Word 'drawings' (the vector-graphics diagrams you can draw within Word, or paste in from PowerPoint)? They just come up as grey placeholder boxes in the documents I opened, although all the bitmap images were just fine. A bit of a bummer if these don't work, as just about every document I deal with at work seems to include one or more of them :-( Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon