[snip] > > Yes, I had missed the point of the monolitic app, so then an easy > approach to make different apps (menus,calculator, note taking, basic > drawing, ...) is to enrich it in the reader app itself this way maybe > some services (read services as already implemented functions in the > code of the reader app) can be used by the little apps, understanding > than this little apps are not independent apps but just another screen > of the same big app. >
Actually, the possibility that interests me the most is the idea of making it easy to put additional content into the reader. The current software is good at displaying textual content, and good at searching for text as well. The hardware is less than optimal for the other types of apps you mentioned -- but it's a good reader. There are many sources of text that one might want to carry around in such a device, not just Wikipedia. E-books, websites, mail archives, other wikis... all we have to do is build the tools to convert the content into a format the device can understand. This is much easier than writing new code to run on the device. For those people who want to write code that runs on the device, there are plenty of things that would make it an even better reader. But I expect to concentrate on the WikiReader tools that run on other computers. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community