On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:22:17PM -0300, Adilson Oliveira wrote: > 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?
Would tsclient be useful as a base for the GUI? I don't think VNC is as attractive for this use case, and not even UNIX weenies use XDMCP anymore. ;-) > 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. PowerPoint is a key file format, and robust support for all Office formats will be a great differentiator for the platform. It's one of the things that's very difficult for existing mobile Linux platforms because the hardware horsepower is lacking. > 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. I agree. -- - mdz -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
