On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:50, Stanley Sokolow <overb...@earthlink.net> wrote: > My thoughts about Firefox. Even if it uses more resources than Midori, > it's worth the extra bytes. I am running Xubuntu (Teapot edition) from a > 2GB SD card in my XO, and I have Firefox on it. I installed the ePubReader > plug-in for Firefox. This runs nicely and allows you to view eBooks in > ePub format, which is the up-and-coming open format for books. You can > get free ePub eBooks from several free sites, including books.google.com, > www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain, and gutenberg.org. Project Gutenberg plain > text files can be read on the XO in Sugar using the Read ETexts activity, > but that activity says "Read Etexts is similar to the original Read > activity, but instead of PDFs this activity works with the plain text files > created for Project Gutenberg." Plain text versions are inferior to the > nicely formatted ePub books.
Just for the record, it's the Read activity which supports ePub files. http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/06/18/read-and-epub-and-beyond/ Regards, Tomeu > To get the ePubReader plugin, all you do is go > to "Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons" in Firefox and search for ePubReader. > It even updates itself when new releases of the plug-in come out. > > Xubuntu doesn't use Gnome, but instead uses Xfce the light-weight window > manager. I would rather give up Gnome's bulk than leave out Firefox. > > One thing little annoying thing about using the ePubReader on my XO system > -- the directional buttons next to the screen don't work (aren't recognized) > so I can't turn the screen into tablet mode and still be able to navigate > page turns. Does anyone know an easy way to map these keys into up, down, > forward, and backward keys? It's been a long time since I played around > with keymapping in Linux. > > Stan Sokolow > > ---------------- > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:14 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com <rihowa...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Some quick observations on F11 for the XO-1 - Build11. >> >> ... > > <stuff deleted here> >> >> Gnome Desktop mode: >> In previous builds Midori was used as the web browser in gnome now Firefox >> is being pulled in. Is this an intentional change or a side effect of >> changing the build system? Midori is general considered to use less >> resources than Firefox. > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel