Quoting Bernhard Agthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
Greetings,
Berny Agthe
I agree, what we need is a simple tool-kit safe OASIS editor. With basic
features and a good render engine. Visiooo-writer provides a good piece
of that
pie as it runs on pyGTK and can read OOo and OASIS files (but cant write).
Another is a Java viewer taht also provides that, but on the opposite we need
an actual editor which will grab the text, plug it into the xml tree and zip
it.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish
http://es.openoffice.org/
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