[maemo-developers] maemo UI

[From: gary liquid]

hi all,

the current liqbase has a simplified text based book reader - its available
in maemo extras.

its got super sliq kinetic scrolling through the document and fullscreen
tearfree rendering of booktext with an autoscroll function :)
it remembers your position and allows you to select a new book (what else do
you need..)

its principle limitation is that it reads only text files (the other being
its all mixed in with everything else that I expect to have)

there are discussions underway and plans to make use of my new libliqbase
framework to allow multiple book formats to be read on the device using the
same sliq UI :)

theres a video of my work here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaYwhich shows the initial
framework a couple of months ago and I have advanced
further already (theres a followup video)

We (myself, community council member keesj and jeremiah the maemo debmaster)
have just spent some time at the mozilla maemo weekend preparing a proper
debian package for the library itself so that myself and others can build on
the library to create apps which work well on this and future devices (I
have run the framework on omap3 prototypes with even more impressive speed!)

hope that gives a little foodfor thought :)

gary (lcuk on #maemo)

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Erik Hovland <erik at hovland.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Hubert Figuiere<hub at figuiere.net> wrote:
> > On 06/01/2009 01:49 PM, Erik Hovland wrote:
> >>
> >> The real bonus points for reading electronic documents is to make evince
> >> be
> >> small screen aware and make it be able understand page layout so that it
> >> focuses
> >> away whitespace (like margins). Bonus points if it understands two and
> >> three column
> >> layouts as well. PDF reading on small devices is the sux0rs.
> >
> > The real problem is that PDF is not a format for electronic books.
> Because
> > it hardcodes paper size and layout, it is not independant of the media.
> PDF
> > is a format for digital rendering of printouts.
> >
> > As long as this will not be understood, then the problem will stick.
> > (and this also applies to people who think PDF is also for the web)
>
> I totally agree. But as long as this issue is not understood we are stuck
> w/
> lots of ebooks in PDF.
>
> E
>
> --
> Erik Hovland
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> http://hovland.org/
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