Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-05-22 Thread Juhana Jauhiainen
I've moved the blog to http://juhanagsoc.wordpress.com/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-05-21 Thread Juhana Jauhiainen
I've set up a blog at http://durriken.org/blog/ and a repository at http://gitorious.org/maemo-ebook-reader-gsoc-2010 so you can follow my progress. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-05-21 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
On 21 May 2010 14:46, Juhana Jauhiainen juhana.jauhiai...@gmail.com wrote: I've set up a blog at http://durriken.org/blog/ and a repository at http://gitorious.org/maemo-ebook-reader-gsoc-2010 so you can follow my progress. ___ maemo-developers

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-05-07 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com wrote: It could be done as a separate project (the daemon), so not sure it should be integrated in this, actually. It doesn't even need to be a daemon. It can be an app that fetches the documents from instapaper and launches

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-05-06 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
Will this app support Instapaper? I just discovered this site and supporting would just be awesome. I know you can store the pages in ePub format and have this reader app read them, but having direct support integrated into the app, would be awesome. Aniello

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-05-06 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
On 6 May 2010 16:22, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com wrote: Will this app support Instapaper? I just discovered this site and supporting would just be awesome. I know you can store the pages in ePub format and have this reader app read them, but having direct support integrated into the

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-05-04 Thread Juhana Jauhiainen
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Roland Whitehead rol...@quru.com wrote: On 30 Apr 2010, at 09:46, Juhana Jauhiainen wrote: Changing font size is a very useful feature so it should be included. What comes to scrolling, I was planning to use paging instead of a continuous scrollable

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - I don't think format support is hugely important in the end, as you can convert between formats with a program like calibre. Strongly disagree. Maybe your or I can, but it's rather terribly inconvenient and requires using another device to facilitate ebook reading

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Ville M. Vainio
I don't think format support is hugely important in the end, as you can convert between formats with a program like calibre. Strongly disagree. Maybe your or I can, but it's rather terribly inconvenient and requires using another device to facilitate ebook reading on your N900. Without

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Benoît HERVIER
Personnally most of the time, specially when reading technicals books with programming line code ;) I think both is usefull, depends of book's type, and personnal preferences ... -- Benoît HERVIER, Khertan Software -- http://khertan.net/ Le jeudi 29 avril 2010 à 15:23 -0700, Aniello Del Sorbo

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2010/4/30 Benoît HERVIER kher...@khertan.net: Personnally most of the time, specially when reading technicals books with programming line code ;) I think both is usefull, depends of book's type, and personnal preferences ... Looks like I'm the only one reading books in landscape mode ! :)

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Frank Banul
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/30 Benoît HERVIER kher...@khertan.net: Personnally most of the time, specially when reading technicals books with programming line code ;) I think both is usefull, depends of book's type, and personnal

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
On 30 April 2010 12:07, Frank Banul frank.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/30 Benoît HERVIER kher...@khertan.net: Personnally most of the time, specially when reading technicals books with programming line code ;) I

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 12:14:53 30.04.2010 UTC-07 when ani...@gmail.com did gyre and gimble: ADS Thanks, no need for votes. The app will be designed, looks like, ADS with both orientations in mind. Can't wait to put my hands on it ADS :) I should warn you that high-quality book reader for formats

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Mikhail Gusarov dotted...@dottedmag.net wrote: etc) in various languages. Browser engines might be also a good learning excersise, given lot of formats being just a subset of XHTML in containers nowadays. Especially this applies to .epub, as it is not only

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Romero
portrait mode (full page view) versus landscape mode (part page view) Both view options are important. ! (by small devices like n900) For orientation i need the full page view (portrait mode) but to read the text i prefer landscape mode. If i like to show some text on a N770 or N810 i don't

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-29 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
On 29 April 2010 09:24, Juhana Jauhiainen juhana.jauhiai...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been lucky enough to get accepted to Google Summer of Code 2010 and my project is to develop an eBook reader for Maemo 5 with Qt 4.6. Coding starts May 24 and before that we have a Community Bonding period

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-29 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com wrote: Second, I don't know (I'll read the proposal later today) if you've already had a thought about this, but will you be using regular text (i.e. normal font rendering by Pango) or will you be looking at handling the

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-29 Thread Ryan Abel
On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Juhana Jauhiainen wrote: Hello, Howdy! I've been using FBReader on Maemo since the earliest days of the 770, and I've read hundreds of books on my Maemo devices over the past 5 years. So book reading is something rather near to my heart. ;) First and foremost

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-29 Thread Ryan Abel
On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Ryan, how often do you read e-book in portrait mode on the tablets? 99% of the time I use it in portrait mode, except for a short stretch after Maemo 5 was first released when the volume keys wouldn't scroll. ;) The volume rocker is just

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-29 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Ryan Abel rabe...@gmail.com wrote: Implementing format handling from-scratch is going to be a herculean undertaking, so I wonder if you could've borrow FBReader's handling Okular (that happens to be a Qt program) also has format handling code, including