From kde-active Mon May 02 10:07:29 2011 From: kunal.t2 () gmail ! com (kunal ghosh) Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 10:07:29 +0000 To: kde-active Subject: New Packages Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-active&m=131631768421989 Hi all, since the topic of ebook readers was raised, can all please suggest ebook readers that they own, or would suggest. I ask this because i am planning to buy one and need some suggestions. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday, April 30, 2011 22:34:55 Sascha Manns wrote: > > i'm maintaining two Packages who are maybe interesting for Active. > > I can give calibre and polka (both packahed and should work with Plasma > > Active. > > calibre is a very featureful e-book manager and it does things that no > other > F/OSS package (that i was able to find?) can. we use it at our house for > the > ebook reader we have :) > > my concern with calibre with regards to Active is the user interface: it is > very much designed for a traditional mouse & keyboard approach. what would > be > excellent is if there was an alternative UI for calibre that was touch > friendly and provided a greater focus on accessing books already on a > device > (i don't think that syncing a book to a device is the most important > feature > when the software is already on, say, a tablet device :) > > do you have any thoughts/advice on that aspect of calibre? > > as for polka, i'm quite interested in that and seeing how we might be able > to > integrate a more touch and context friendly contacts view with Active. > > in particular, we need a better way to select contacts when wanting to > share a > file or other piece of informatin and polka might be very good for that. i > haven't tried it yet on a tablet, but i should try to get around to it. > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > humru othro a kohnu se > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > Active mailing list > Active at kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active > > -- regards ------- Kunal Ghosh Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering. Sir MVIT Bangalore,India permalink: member.acm.org/~kunal.t2 Blog:kunalghosh.wordpress.com Website:www.kunalghosh.net46.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/active/attachments/20110502/72d09c1a/attachment.htm