Good evening We are revisiting the choices and options regarding the user applications that will be available in this first release. The document https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/UserApplications explains, as you know, the the choices and current status of them (tough I need to do some updating on the current building) I did chat with Bob Spencer on friday and I would like to place here our thoughts for discussion. 1) Remote access. - Use rdesktop with some sort of GUI. I'll implement panning to help deal with the low resolution of the devices. VNC is also feasible but it has a few drawbacks as do not work with matchbox keyboard. Perhaps add something to XDMCP? 2) Dealing with MS Office documents. - Add gnumeric and abiword to the pool of applications. They can't handle MS Office formats as well as Openoffice but are light and already have hildon interfaces. Easy to do but we will miss Powerpoint files. - Add Openoffice. As we know, they can handle MS Office files well but are big and don't have a hildon interface tough it is possible to do some changes on the interface to help smooth the edges. 3) PIM - We already have Pimlico there but it's not catching up as fast as we wanted to so I'm thinking about add GPE to the pot. They are already available to Maemo so, it should not be hard to do it. 4) Games - No big deal here. We can pick some of the ones already ported to Maemo and maybe some 3D ones that can run in the devices that already have support for that like the Samsung Q1.
Suggestions are appreciated. []s Adilson. -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
