Though on how the evolution of the soft of the wikireader must be, I have oredered the sugesstions by impact on functionality/easy to implement ratio, of course under a totally non-hardcore developer and only-one-week user criteria. *First and prioritary, allow have multiple languages on same sdcard, I think a one easy approach is to have a selection menu on boot with the available languages on the sdcard (looking at the sufix of the pedia files "pedia_es", "pedia_de", "pedia_pt"..... ) present a bare text menu with the items, select, and then operate as usual. More complex things like changing of language inside a topic or include non wikipedia content to that menu using a config file can be implemented later on.
*Second adaptation of the keyboard for internationalization, I suggest ,as quick fix, the introduction of a third keyboard screen with the special chars like ñ, ç, ... add here the common chars on other european languages, to simplify not include accentuated vocals and consonants , when searching a word you will select the correct accentuated one on the list. Cirilic, chinese, japanese, arabic and other completly diferent alphabets is a full redo of the keyboard, there are important to have in but I don't describe his implementation and be selectable as quickfix... *Third Use long press of the buttons search, and history to: long press on search = launch other apps, present a menu (loaded from a config file to launch apps like the calculator(calc.elf file included in the sdcard)and the multiple apps people will start to develop on this platform, (note taking app will be helpful for example) I think change the behavior of the history short press as back is more useful than actual one, and on long Press present a menu to back/forward/view history/change content menu Random is funny as it is please dont touch :) *Forth: Include images , I know this will increase a lot both the space on sdcard and cpu load of the device, but they can be implemented as link(pic) in the main content and once clicked open them at full screen , and pressing the history(back) button and return to content , same aproach with formulas. zoom in/out maybe aviable from a long press on the screen with a pop up menu, a fixed scales and max image size has to be defined on what the device can handle. of course this image strored in the sd are b/w bitmaps, the host is the responsable of make the render of the original ones to this format. Maybe formulas can be rendered on the device if they are stored in latex on the wikipedia and the Wikireade can handle this or has to be redered as images on the host it it can't be done. What do you think about? David Reyes Samblas Martinez http://www.tuxbrain.com Open ultraportable & embedded solutions Openmoko, Openpandora, Arduino Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!! _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community