Re: GSOC Project: eBook Reader
Hi again, I've read a bit through the Qt-documentation for the maemo-specific parts, especially QAbstractKineticScroller. I had nothing to do yesterday evening so I tried out how well this is working up to now and if my proposal isn't just a idea but could also be nicely realized with the PR 1.2 Qt 4.6 release. After playing around with it some time I could realize the things I wanted without problems :) The few lines of code won't do anything beside drawing a more or less usable gui and were initially just written to try out some things I've been interested in. But I think they are a nice addition to my proposal anyway since they describe the basic gui-functionality I would like to have for the reader very well. So heres the link to the source: http://misc.paranoiacs.net/reader-gui-demo.tar.gz And a binary (ARMEL architecture for the N900): http://misc.paranoiacs.net/Reader It's based on Qt 4.6.2 coming with PR 1.2 and won't work with an older version but maybe someone got Qt 4.6 on the N900 or inside scratchbox and wants to try it out. Greetings, Oliver Am Donnerstag 08 April 2010 23:56:01 schrieb Oliver Haag: > Hi, > > my proposal for GSOC is ready and can be seen here: > http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2010/oliverhaag/t126989888692 > > Comments are welcome :) > > Greetings, > Oliver ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: GSOC Project: eBook Reader
Hi, my proposal for GSOC is ready and can be seen here: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2010/oliverhaag/t126989888692 Comments are welcome :) Greetings, Oliver ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: GSOC Project: eBook Reader
I've read a bit through the Okular-sources and they're looking like a very good base for the reader so far. KDE-Dependencies shouldn't be a problem too. pdf-support in Okular is very good anyway so this shouldn't be a problem in my opinion. ePub seems to work fine too. Chm is supported but haven't tried it out because the Okular-package in the Ubuntu-repos is compiled without chm- support. Here's a nice overview of the formats supported by Okular btw.: http://okular.kde.org/formats.php :) > It has to be said, Evince is pretty good for PDF (but I dont know if that > build includes DJVU support?). The other two major formats that I would > love to see supported are CHM and ePub. > > For CHM, have a look at ChmSee (thought it uses GTK+). kchmviewer uses Qt > but might have too many dependencies on KDE libs. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: GSOC Project: eBook Reader
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 00:22 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: > For CHM, have a look at ChmSee (thought it uses GTK+). kchmviewer uses Qt > but might have too many dependencies on KDE libs. > kchmviewer is already available, although it's a really large package. Joseph Charpak josephchar...@comcast.net ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: GSOC Project: eBook Reader
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:22:49AM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Oliver Haag wrote: > > Okular should be a pretty good base, it supports many formats and is > > Qt-based > > (Hope there aren't too many KDE-dependencies...). I'll take a closer look > > at > > the source the next days. > > > > There's another eBook-Software in the repos called FBReader, maybe that is > > already known but wanted to write it here anyway in case it wasn't seen. > > I've > > tried it out and it doesn't seem to be touch-friendly but it looks like it > > supports more eBook-only-formats, maybe these could be ported (When the > > other > > things are running fine :D). > > You've been reading my mind haven't you? :-) > > It has to be said, Evince is pretty good for PDF (but I dont know if that > build includes DJVU support?). I'm currently reading a PDF in Evince, and it's painful. The touch scrolling has weird and unintuitive inertia and is very slow to redraw, so you don't see where you're scrolling until it's too late. Marius Gedminas -- The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. -- Linus Torvalds signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: GSOC Project: eBook Reader
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Oliver Haag wrote: > Okular should be a pretty good base, it supports many formats and is Qt-based > (Hope there aren't too many KDE-dependencies...). I'll take a closer look at > the source the next days. > > There's another eBook-Software in the repos called FBReader, maybe that is > already known but wanted to write it here anyway in case it wasn't seen. I've > tried it out and it doesn't seem to be touch-friendly but it looks like it > supports more eBook-only-formats, maybe these could be ported (When the other > things are running fine :D). You've been reading my mind haven't you? :-) It has to be said, Evince is pretty good for PDF (but I dont know if that build includes DJVU support?). The other two major formats that I would love to see supported are CHM and ePub. For CHM, have a look at ChmSee (thought it uses GTK+). kchmviewer uses Qt but might have too many dependencies on KDE libs. I was hoping to look at some of these packages myself but Ive not had much spare time. -- Aj. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
GSOC Project: eBook Reader
Hi, I'm studying electrotechnics and informatics and the University of Applied Sciences Kempten (Germany). Since I've got a rather easy semester this time I would like to participate in the GSOC this year. I've got pretty good experience with Qt and C++ and would be interested in realizing an eBook Reader for Maemo. And yeah, I'm a N900 user of course ;) Okular should be a pretty good base, it supports many formats and is Qt-based (Hope there aren't too many KDE-dependencies...). I'll take a closer look at the source the next days. There's another eBook-Software in the repos called FBReader, maybe that is already known but wanted to write it here anyway in case it wasn't seen. I've tried it out and it doesn't seem to be touch-friendly but it looks like it supports more eBook-only-formats, maybe these could be ported (When the other things are running fine :D). @VDVsx: Since you added the project to the list in the wiki, would you be interested in mentoring it? Greetings, Oliver Haag ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
