Hi, My 0.02 cents:
I would like to recommend for the UI architecture using QML for the UI and C++ for the "engine". It is very productive way to make apps that really shine. Of course there are multiple ways doing it, but Qt quick is a pretty awesome way to do rapidly things and it enables rethinking how UI behaves and is not bound to some traditional thinking (buttons, sliders, scroll bars, comboboxes etc., these are so 1980s). UI design should receive lots of attention since many community projects have quite engineer's user interface, and book reader certainly should have very fluent end user interface. Book reader would be interesting. There are some examples to look at; for example the iPad book reader has some things very good, and then it has some things very bad (one of these partly is because of the sandbox ideology of the iOS - putting pdf documents to the reader is very tedious). I believe that the iPad reader is using some kind of caching because showing e.g. my pdf documents is unbelievably fast. It somehow pre-caches the documents that are brought to its attention before the user starts to read them (I am guessing, but this could be the only explanation how reading a pdf on a mobile processor can be so much faster than it is on even desktop computer). I got this caching broken once, another document was showing inside one another (apparently a bug, I don't know how to reproduce it, it just happened). The gestures on changing page require lots of attention, they need to be absolutely perfect, otherwise it will be very annoying experience. On iPad this gesture feels very natural, and physicality is a very important aspect on making it feel just right. Flipping page by swiping with hand is not a gimmick, it is a fundamental usability feature when it is done right and there is only one way to make it right and there are million ways to make it wrong and making it wrong is very easy. One of the basic things in the app would be that it should support multiple formats, including pdfs (in addition to some ebook formats). Best Regads, Karoliina Salminen --- http://karoliinasalminen.wordpress.com On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Sivan Greenberg <si...@omniqueue.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > It has been some time that I wanted to start a tablet ebook reader > project. So I would like to spec it up and see how we can implement > this maybe on top of the soon to be open sourced intel tablet > components? > > Who's in for this? I imagine we should start spec'ing on the wiki ? I > would like to follow this[0] in my spec'ing work. > > Feedback? > > -Sivan > > [0]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpecSpec > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-community mailing list > MeeGo-community@meego.com > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community > http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
