"I was one of the many who reported this problem in one from or another. The problem is Windows-specific. I have found out that the problem actually comes from the Windows print system. There is no way to check that a printer is actually active or working or even present without incurring a long time-out in case the printer is not present or powered. Trying to check the defualt printer will incur the same time-out.
Calc apparently wants to check the printer to know how to construct its layout, and has to wait for the time-out to continue.
Some of the comments that claim that Calc hangs and never returns have probably not waited long enough for the timeout.
On my new Windows 11 computer, this printer system behavior has been changed and I no longer experience a delay while opening Calc."
"On a summer day, she was discussing literary philosophy with her brother Per Olov Jansson next to the outhouse at their summer cottage in the archipelago. Tove quoted Immanuel Kant, who Per Olov immediately downplayed. To get back at her brother, Tove drew the ugliest creature she could imagine on the outhouse wall. That drawing, out of chance, is the first glimpse of a Moomin-like figure, although Tove called it a Snork."
Fortunately they are, but TDF's budget is still rather small when considering the scale of the project. TDF is looking to expand its dev team. There's a lot of activity going on with volunteers and interns, but we need more senior devs to tackle the trickier renovations.
XLOOKUP was implemented last year. Submit a bug report with an example document and the perf issue can be looked into. Calc's performance is being improved constantly.
The default one is different per operating system or desktop environment. On KDE it's Breeze, on Windows it's Colibre, on macOS it's Sifr (off the top of my head).
I just checked, the one I was using, the default on NixOS with Sway, was Elementary, which I didn't like. I will admit that I liked the other built-in ones better, but I still like OpenOffice's better than any of them.
Perhaps spurred by this comment, there was new discussion in the report and it turned out Microsoft has fixed the issue in Windows 11: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673#c8...
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"I was one of the many who reported this problem in one from or another. The problem is Windows-specific. I have found out that the problem actually comes from the Windows print system. There is no way to check that a printer is actually active or working or even present without incurring a long time-out in case the printer is not present or powered. Trying to check the defualt printer will incur the same time-out.
Calc apparently wants to check the printer to know how to construct its layout, and has to wait for the time-out to continue.
Some of the comments that claim that Calc hangs and never returns have probably not waited long enough for the timeout.
On my new Windows 11 computer, this printer system behavior has been changed and I no longer experience a delay while opening Calc."