[Bookreader] FBReader

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
> Sayamindu --
>
> Can you say more about how much work it would take to make 'Read'
> really mean reading and not just reading-pdfs?  Perhaps a more
> peaceful parent program with that name could choose to launch the
> current read [which should be renamed] or another program [for other
> file formats] ...
>
> SJ
>

Well, assuming that the FBReader activity is installed, the Journal
would be the parent program ;-).

On a more serious note, I understand that you want to ensure that the
verb Read is used for reading everything, and not just PDFs. I'll take
a look at the possibility of having a thin wrapper which takes care of
launching the appropriate activity as and when needed (not sure if
this is doable or not - I'll need to chew a bit of the Sugar activity
launcher code)

Thanks,
Sayamindu


> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi SJ,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> Sayamindu --
>>>
>>> Sweet.  How easy would it be to add this as a new reader-type to Read?
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately the current avatar of Read is quite tightly coupled with
>> the Evince backend, so it would need quite a bit of work.
>>
>>> Regarding mime-types, let's revisit making one-click reading from
>>> Browse work as expected (add item to journal, launch new activity to
>>> open it).  Michael says this is possible under the current rainbow
>>> implementation.
>>>
>>
>> I'll try to talk to Michael about this. The mime-type issue is
>> completely different though. I'm not yet able to pinpoint the cause
>> exactly, but I suspect it has something to do with Browse's download
>> code and Sugar's implementation of the shared-mime-info Freedesktop
>> standard. I have a patched Browse at the moment which seems to work,
>> but I'll also like to try to check out Tomeu's suggestion.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>>
>>
>>> SJ
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Nikolay Pultsin <geometer at mawhrin.net> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Samuel, Sayamindu,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm glad to know you both.
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/fbreader_sugar.png
>>>>>
>>>>> This screenshot looks great. I'm really impressed with such unusual look
>>>>> of our program. ;) Are you sure it is really FBReader? :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I publish this screenshot at http://www.fbreader.org/?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have now a better screenshot at
>>>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/fbreader_sugar_v2.png (I don't think
>>>> the design will change much after this - unless I get flamed by
>>>> someone regarding the UI ;-)
>>>>
>>>> I have a working activity now (which works on the XO independently
>>>> without any external software dependency as well). I'll take a few
>>>> more days to figure out the mime type mess in Sugar (I have already
>>>> started annoying the Sugar developers and have a couple of possible
>>>> solutions), and then release a bundle which can simply be downloaded
>>>> and run on a XO with a recent build.
>>>>
>>>> A lot of work still needs to be done for a good reading experience,
>>>> but I'm quite happy with what has been achieved in this week. And
>>>> kudos to Mikhail, Nikolay and the rest of the FBReader dev team for
>>>> their superb work. FBReader works absolutely smoothly on the limited
>>>> XO hardware - no glitches, no sluggishness, nothing :-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Sayamindu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>>>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>
>



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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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