Gimp, AbiWord, Firefox and Emacs

I have setup Xserver, so now I want to have fun with some of those X applications.

GIMP,
is the GNU Image Manipulation Program,

# ipkg install -d loop0 gimp
# ipkg-link add gconf-dbus ; ipkg-link add gimp ; ipkg-link add gnome-vfs-dbus ; ipkg-link add gnome-vfs-plugin-file ; ipkg-link add libart-lgpl-2-2 ; ipkg-link add libexif9 ; ipkg-link add libpopt0 ; ipkg-link add libxmu6 ; ipkg-link add libxt6 ; ipkg-link add tiff

GIMP is really slow to start up, and slow on use.

AbiWord,
AbiWord is a word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word,

# ipkg install -d loop0 abiword # ipkg-link add abiword ; ipkg-link add aspell ; ipkg-link add enchant ; ipkg-link add glibc-gconv-cp1252 ; ipkg-link add glibc-gconv-ibm850 ; ipkg-link add glibc-gconv-iso8859-15 ; ipkg-link add libaspell15 ; ipkg-link add libfribidi0 ; ipkg-link add libgnomecanvas-2-0 ; ipkg-link add libgnomeprint-2-2-0 ; ipkg-link add libgnomeprintui-2-2-0

Firefox

# ipkg install -d loop0 firefox
# ipkg-link add firefox ; ipkg-link add libbonobo ; ipkg-link add libgnome ; ipkg-link add libidl-2-0 ; ipkg-link add orbit2

and ipkg install again, to fix the postinst errors.
When I tried to start firefox it hanged and I had to reboot - so firefox does not work and I removed it.

Emacs

# ipkg install -d loop0 emacs
# ipkg-link add emacs

this is a very big installation (15MB), and rather lengthy.