[Gvsig_english] v1.9 alpha on Ubuntu 8.10

[Squidjag]

Hi Ben,

I can! Some context; I'm going to use gvSIG to teach post graduate
management students spatial concepts. I'm a geospatial consultant (part time
teacher) and use XP as my primary operating system. I've decided that I will
not upgrade to Vista and am therefore looking at Ubuntu. gvSIG 1.1 is
excellent and I will be using it for my course (probably OA actually) but it
is not clear to me about a couple of spatial relations I want to teach so I
wanted to take a squizz (peak) at 1.9alpha. I came across OA when looking to
fix my other problems.

Anyway, I'm running gvSIG1.1 on a Windows box (pentium dual 1.8 ghz
processor, 2 gig of ram) and  Unbuntu 8.10 on an older box (Celeron 2.8 ghz
with 1.5 gig of ram). I must say that the best thing is the OA installer for
Lynux. For a windows pleb like me it is the same as an MSI installer and
makes life so much easy. :-)

Bearing in mind I've only clicked a few buttons so far, the two systems
seems to be functional the same. The only difference I've seen so far is the
'i' icon on the information button is missing the 'i' in the Ubuntu box. I
even have a shape file that will not display attributes and it is the same
in both systems (it doesn't have a projection file so that may be the
cause???).

There is however a performance difference. A polygon shape file with around
850,000 features take 12 seconds to render in windows and 18 or so seconds
to render in the 8.10 box. The variables are: a newer processor on the
windows box, gvSIG on windows compared to OA on 8.10, and possibly the the
java settings (I chose the standard 512 memory allocation on install). The
other performance thing is that actions are slow in 8.10. For example. If I
use a box select, I can drag a box around my selection and a second or so
passes before the box is drawn. I can click on a window and drag it and
again it takes a second or so before the window is moved. I am using a 22"
screen running at 1680x1050 and thought it might be graphics drivers but
other application windows have no lag. Not sure if this is a 8.10 issue,
Java, or there are some performance tweaks I should compare??

Happy to compare some other features of interest but will share comparisons
of the things I'm using in my course.
Cheers
Colin

Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 
> Please let us know how the OA version works for you on Ubuntu!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
> Squidjag wrote:
>> Hi Jean,
>> 
>> Apologies for taking so long to respond. I don't know what I did wrong
>> but
>> my install ended up the wrong directory and only sudo would run it (it
>> was
>> owned by root). I had another issue and chose to go back to 8.04. Long
>> story
>> cut short, I'm trying the OA version 1.1.2 with 8.10 (after a couple of
>> rebuilds). I will try 1.9alpha after I have learned some more about
>> Lynux. I
>> intend to give it a shot in a Virtual Machine running Windows.
>> 
>> Thank you, and to Marcus too, for your assistance.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Colin
>> 
>> 
>> jean hemmi wrote:
>>> Hi Colin,
>>> Following Marcus, you have to install in your homedir.
>>> After, simplest (than managing AWT_TOOLKIT) is to turn off the visuals
>>> effects in "system=>pref=>apparence" 
>>> gvSIG is running without any problem.
>>> For the icon, you can create yours, pointing on
>>> home/xx/gvSIG_1.9/bin/gvSIG.sh
>>>
>>> - Jean (running gvsig 1.9alpha on ubuntu 8.10)
>>>
>> 
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