On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Andrew Greig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is my first post to this list, and I have read the entire thread on > this subject. > > A brief history: I am a Linux user of 9 years, I have been using OOo on > the desktop since StarOffice 5.2, I am a community distributor of OOo, > and I have been a Palm user for 8 years. Even before Palm made the
Awesome, did you ever developed for the PalmOS? > suicidal move of introducing Windows Mobile as their OS, I was nagging > them about working with OOo to use OOo as their onboard document reader > and creator. DataViz had a highly functional program for the MS Ofice > app, called Documents2Go, and with the lack of a feature in Palm to read > our native docs, I had to save all of docs in both formats. With the BTW Nokia currently have a version of Document2Go, it also seems the SymbianOS also have a version of Docs2Go. > advent of ODF the need for Palm to embrace the format became stronger, > but they still hung on to Microsoft. Their new WebOS is the last gasp > of this once-great company, but they seem to be betting on "the Cloud" > as is Google with Android. Althought I wonder if there is a big awareness with the Sidekick loosing all the "cloud" data. > > Now Nokia has come out with an idea to use KOffice on their phones, and > fair enough too. If you've got it, use it. Mind you Trolltech designed > the Linux OS for the Sharp Zaurus, and it synched better with Windows > than with Linux - go figure! Maybe our best direction is to get a Most of Trolltech speciality has been interfaces more than functionality, but the closed nature of building this tools under contract make the KDE community to not be able to provide the conections to the current protocols. > "Lite" version of OOo working under Android. Predictions (Gartner) are > that within 2 years Android will have a strong second place position in > the marketplace, behind Nokia. Given Google's interest in driving > advertising sales on portable devices, maybe a joint project with Google > to put OOo on Android might work. Nokia however could easily put the Maemo platform on all their mobiles and push it as the main platform for development. However that is a big "If", however OOo doesnt really depend on any platform OOo doesnt use the Win32 libraries nor the GTK or QT environment. Using the curent enviroment for android or webos or maemo will just be too hard to make it work. However maybe optimizing the native OOo engine to run on the mobile processor it would make it similar. I guess the start would be to do exactly that. Do a technichal analisys on the viability of running OOo on the android platform. You can use virtualbox currently to run it: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/android-or-webos-try-you-buy Also the Android documentation might be some help: http://www.androidx86.org/ > The important thing to keep in mind is that OOo must end up on portable > devices, sooner rather than later. > > I was referred to this list by Juergen Schmidt of SUN in response to a > message I sent to the developers list: > > I would suggest that you post it on the discuss|[email protected] list > again and start a discussion there. Or you join the just at the weekend > started discussion on [email protected]| > [email protected] > about a mobile version of OOo related to the latest announcements from > Nokia to support a mobile version of KOffice. > > The tile of this thread is "Nokia funds KOffice for mobiles" > > Juergen > > > > Andrew Greig > Community Distributor, OpenOffice.org > Melbourne, Australia > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
