Hi, sorry for my late answer...
Running Office packages like Abiword or other probably is an option, but it shouldn't be for a real OOo user ;-)
Second, I agree that PDA's will not be fast and "big" enough for a full-featured OOo suite during the next few years - there are "big" PDAs like the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000, but that's not what I was talking about. I was talking about PDAs which are currently in market, like iPAQ or similar. Lots of them are running MS winCE in different flavors. For usage with MS winCE there are compatibility libraries available which make porting Software more easily (winCE on actual hardware is not the fastest thing I've seen...)
In my view this is actually the most common platform as this is sold by Discounters, Telcos (see www.xda-developers.com) and lots of others. Most users cannot be persuaded to install some Linux distro on it (the XDA will not run telephone functions under Linux). Shipping with MS winCE is some thing called "Pocket Word" and "Pocket Excel". While the spreadsheet is not too bad the Word-processor is rather crude. Something like "Draw" and "Impress" (which could go together in one App?) is missing completely.
So my idea was to have a really-stripped-down version of OOo (Text processing and style sheet based formatting. Only a small subset of features needs to be implemented with respect to OOo - nice would be tables and embedding of pictures / objects but not necessary.
In a perfect world (which we don't live in) this PDA-OOo would share the same code base as OOo, but I'm not sure whether this is a good idea in the first step. On the other hand this would enable a Mini-OOo application being build for other platforms as well. But it would be a huge strategic approach which needs lots of work in all of OOo, so a different code base would be easier to begin with.
As I said I'm willing to share the work and do my part of it, but I do need some help.
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