Hi, On 9/3/07, Adilson Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good evening > > We are revisiting the choices and options regarding the user > applications that will be available in this first release.
[snip] > 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. Deal with MS document format is a quite obscure subject, IMHO. Abiword and Gnumeric have support for .doc and .xls formats respectively, in some cases even better than OOo, but I really doubt there ever will be full support for these. They're incompatible with everything else, even with themselves, as the format differs in each version of the Office suit. The new OOXML came promising to fix these issues, but there is not any implementation of import/export filters in the Free Software world yet. Novell is working on adding support for it in OOo, but I don't know when it will be ready or usable. > - 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. Does anyone know how OOo performs in terms of memory/power/processor consumption in the kinds of devices UME is targeting? Other important point is the amount of work needed to adapt it to he hildon interface would be gigantic. One thing I can say from my experience of porting applications to Nokia 770 and N800 devices is they will never be fully adapted to small screens. Take Gnumeric for example. The look of the main window gives you the wrong impression that the job is done. The great majority of dialogs require more space than it is available in that small screens. One thing I'd keep in mind is the purpose of having an office suite available for the UME. If it is intended to be used more for trivial tasks as viewing (someone sends you an email with a document attached) and simple editing (you correct something in the document and sends back), I think Abiword and Gnumeric fulfill the requirements. Otherwise, it looks like more a job for a work in a desktop computer. Best Regards, Etrunko. -- Eduardo de Barros Lima INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
