[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] How to view Microsoft word/ppt in maemo ?

[From: Karoliina Salminen]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 13:36 +0800, ext Falls Huang wrote:
> Hello!
> 	Can I view the ms office word/ppt/excel file in maemo ?
> 	Can I view the openoffice.org file in maemo ?

Sure if someone ports OpenOffice.org or something similar for Maemo
which may be challenging, but not necessarily impossible provided that
someone does it. 

Currently however, as far as my understanding, the answer is no. The
OpenOffice.org for example is a quite demanding application on the
desktop and may be quite hard to make it fit into a resource limited
device (very limited memory if compared to desktop (64 MB RAM, and with
Linux, X, AF Desktop etc. loaded, not very much free RAM), very limited
flash, if compared to desktop Linux box hard drive etc).

If there would be a tiny GTK+ based OpenOffice.org viewer somewhere out
there in the open source community (I don't know if there is), that
would be the best starting point and a lot more realistic to port so
that it will propably work on the 770 device. Optimizing the memory
footprint down would be crucial to success.

Best Regards,
Karoliina
http://www.karoliinasalminen.com/blog