Matt Zimmerman wrote: > 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?
Yes, that's my idea. I remember seeing something for Maemo specifically a long time ago but I'm not sure, I'll have to look it up. > >> 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. Exactly. We're in a tight spot here. In time we can aways use OpenOffices's code as a base to create a set of viewers but right now I don't see another way but have it package and who wanting support for powerpoint will need the hardware capacity to do it. > >> 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. > Cool. I'll see to it. []s Adilson. -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
