[maemo-developers] GSOC Project: eBook Reader

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:22:49AM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Oliver Haag wrote:
> > Okular should be a pretty good base, it supports many formats and is Qt-based 
> > (Hope there aren't too many KDE-dependencies...). I'll take a closer look at 
> > the source the next days.
> > 
> > There's another eBook-Software in the repos called FBReader, maybe that is 
> > already known but wanted to write it here anyway in case it wasn't seen. I've 
> > tried it out and it doesn't seem to be touch-friendly but it looks like it 
> > supports more eBook-only-formats, maybe these could be ported (When the other 
> > things are running fine :D).
> 
> You've been reading my mind haven't you? :-)
> 
> It has to be said, Evince is pretty good for PDF (but I dont know if that 
> build includes DJVU support?).

I'm currently reading a PDF in Evince, and it's painful.  The touch
scrolling has weird and unintuitive inertia and is very slow to redraw,
so you don't see where you're scrolling until it's too late.

Marius Gedminas
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