Re: N900 features
Mark Haury wrote: [...] Abiword doesn't work for me. I can't get it to open anything other than its native proprietary format. I've tried the maemo version, the linux version and the Windows version, all with the same results. You mean on the N900? Or anywhere at all? I've been using it under Ubuntu, Windows, Red Hat, and Maemo OS-2008 without any problems. I wouldn't expect any version of any software to run unmodified on the N900 (or N800/880/770 for that matter). It would need to be compiled with the relevant toolchain. Or did you mean you compiled it yourself? ///Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 features
Peter == Peter Flynn peter.fl...@mars.ucc.ie writes: Peter I've never quite understood why, given that only 10 years Peter ago, my main system was a 64Mb desktop running Red Hat 3 or Peter something, and WordPerfect for Linux (another monolithic Peter monster) executed quite usably, if slowly. I would have Peter thought that in the intervening decade, technology would Peter have advanced a little more than this. It has -- Microsoft Word has invented lots more kinds of bloat than they had 10 years ago, so a program that tries to read all possible Word documents has to be lots bigger. Software never gets faster. When they make the hardware faster, they make the software slower to compensate. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org What a natural history of religion would show is that the human experience of the divine has deep roots in psychoactive plants and fungi. (Karl Marx may have gotten it backward when he called religion the opiate of the people.) Michael Pollan, _The Botany of Desire_ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 features
Mark Haury wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: Mark Haury wrote: [...] Abiword doesn't work for me. I can't get it to open anything other than its native proprietary format. I've tried the maemo version, the linux version and the Windows version, all with the same results. You mean on the N900? Or anywhere at all? I've been using it under Ubuntu, Windows, Red Hat, and Maemo OS-2008 without any problems. I wouldn't expect any version of any software to run unmodified on the N900 (or N800/880/770 for that matter). It would need to be compiled with the relevant toolchain. Or did you mean you compiled it yourself? ///Peter Anywhere at all. It doesn't work on my desktops (any of them), laptop or desktop. That's interesting, and rather weird. Maybe if your documents have little to no formatting it works, but the documents I need to open invariably have lots of formatting: fonts, indents, tables, columns, graphics, etc. IMO if the only thing that matters in a given document is the text, then a plaintext file is adequate and much more portable to _any_ device. Otherwise, complete feature support is mandatory. Regardless, the fact that Abiword defaults to its own proprietary format (or the fact that it even _has_ its own unique format) makes it problematic. The last thing the world needs is yet another noncompatible document format, and being forced to go through a conversion process every time you want to create or edit a document is a PITA. All of which is true, except that all wordprocessors have their own unique default format, and always have...a relic of the days when Marketing people though it was terribly, terribly clever to trap the user with an impenetrable and incompatible file format (sadly, some of them still think like this). But the documents I use are also heavily formatted; although none of them are authored in AbiWord, which I only use (on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop) for its ability to convert (clumsily, but fairly accurately) to LaTeX and a few other formats. For anything requiring Word compatibility, I use OpenOffice, which is why I was interested to see someone got it working on the N800. I do use AbiWord on the N800 for the occasional (but rare) document I need to write while I'm travelling and save as .doc or .odt for someone else; and (again rarely, and usually only when away) to open a downloaded .doc or .docx email attachment. In essence, it's a slightly cronky but functional tool. For anything requiring serious work I use Emacs and LaTeX: I can't imagine the nightmare of trying to do typesetting in a wordprocessor. ///Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 features
Sebas, you might want to have your client read the following recent review at the amazon.com www site: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1T7KKC62GZ5JZ/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R1T7KKC62GZ5JZ and specifically the commentary there regarding the included email client and the difficulty of getting the touch screen to work without a stylus. As of now the device is scoring an average of 4 out of 5 among the reviewers so far. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * sebastian maemo wrote: Hi everybody: One of my clients has recently asked me about the possibility to get a portable computer like my N770... :-) I've talked him about the N900, and despite the price of the unlocked device, he has asked me to check whether its features would satisfy his needs... I know how N770 works... but I have almost no idea about N900... I have read the full specs at the Nokia website http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n900/specifications, though I'd like to know whether there's any application that enables a user to open a M$ Office file, (doc or xls type, for example). I think that the answer is no, though that wouldn't be a problem if the PDF reader works well enough... -- Salut, Sebas ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 features
sebastian maemo wrote: Hi everybody: One of my clients has recently asked me about the possibility to get a portable computer like my N770... :-) I've talked him about the N900, and despite the price of the unlocked device, he has asked me to check whether its features would satisfy his needs... I know how N770 works... but I have almost no idea about N900... I have read the full specs at the Nokia website http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n900/specifications, though I'd like to know whether there's any application that enables a user to open a M$ Office file, (doc or xls type, for example). I think that the answer is no, though that wouldn't be a problem if the PDF reader works well enough... -- Salut, Sebas OpenOffice.org is available for the N8x0 through Easy Debian, but I don't know if it will work with the N900 yet. http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/easy-deb-chroot/ Maybe it will be available for the N900 soon? Mark ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 features
Peter Flynn wrote: sebastian maemo wrote: Hi everybody: One of my clients has recently asked me about the possibility to get a portable computer like my N770... :-) I've talked him about the N900, and despite the price of the unlocked device, he has asked me to check whether its features would satisfy his needs... I know how N770 works... but I have almost no idea about N900... I have read the full specs at the Nokia website http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n900/specifications, though I'd like to know whether there's any application that enables a user to open a M$ Office file, (doc or xls type, for example). I think that the answer is no, though that wouldn't be a problem if the PDF reader works well enough... I don't know about the N900, but AbiWord on the N800 has no problem opening .doc and .docx files. And the PDF reader works fine. Abiword doesn't work for me. I can't get it to open anything other than its native proprietary format. I've tried the maemo version, the linux version and the Windows version, all with the same results. Maybe your experience will be different. Mark ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
