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Today, Nokia released the first public version of the office document viewer for the Nokia N900 phone. It was uploaded to the Maemo repositories. This version supports text files, spreadsheets and presentations in OpenDocument format (ODF) and Microsoft Office formats. The viewer requires the latest update (PR1.1) to the N900 software. You can install 'Office Viewer' by adding the maemo-devel repository to your N900 catalogues:
- Catalog name:
- Maemo Extras-devel
- Web address:
- http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel
- Distribution:
- fremantle
- Components:
- free
Then the application 'freoffice' will be available in the category 'Office'. The install is 9 megabytes.
With the viewer, you can open multiple files at once, open office documents from your e-mail, search in office files and copy and paste from your documents. A very nice feature is the ability to give presentations with the phone. Here are some screen shots of the viewer running on the N900.
The code for this viewer is available in the KOffice repository. New releases of the viewer will be uploaded to the repository as KOffice progresses towards version 2.2.
The viewer has a simple user interface and responds quickly to user input such as page changing and scrolling.
Today, Nokia released the first public version of the office document viewer for the Nokia N900 phone. It was uploaded to the Maemo repositories. This version supports text files, spreadsheets and presentations in OpenDocument format (ODF) and Microsoft Office formats. The viewer requires the latest update (PR1.1) to the N900 software. You can install 'Office Viewer' by adding the maemo-devel repository to your N900 catalogues:
- Catalog name:
- Maemo Extras-devel
- Web address:
- http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel
- Distribution:
- fremantle
- Components:
- free
Then the application 'freoffice' will be available in the category 'Office'. The install is 9 megabytes.
With the viewer, you can open multiple files at once, open office documents from your e-mail, search in office files and copy and paste from your documents. A very nice feature is the ability to give presentations with the phone. Here are some screen shots of the viewer running on the N900.
The code for this viewer is available in the KOffice repository. New releases of the viewer will be uploaded to the repository as KOffice progresses towards version 2.2.
The viewer has a simple user interface and responds quickly to user input such as page changing and scrolling.
Nokia has been kind enough for lending me an awesome N900. This will allow me to test KOffice on the phone. Document loading, parsing and scrolling speed could do with improvements.
Apart from using the N900 for serious things, I've also done a bit of playing with it. Qt has a famous OpenGL demo that shows the Qt logo in a QGLWidget. Instead of controlling the rotation of the object with the scrollbars, the adapted version uses the accelerometers in the device to move the logo.
This was a simple adaptation: reading the accelerometers is simple:
Nokia-N900-41-10:~# cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-3/3-001d/coord 36 -18 -1134
The application source and a debian package for the N900 are now available.
Here is a screenshot of five running instances in the application overview. The five logos all move if you move the phone.
Perhaps a Qt on Maemo guru can adapt this program to be a desktop widget with a transparent background.
Nokia has been kind enough for lending me an awesome N900. This will allow me to test KOffice on the phone. Document loading, parsing and scrolling speed could do with improvements.
Apart from using the N900 for serious things, I've also done a bit of playing with it. Qt has a famous OpenGL demo that shows the Qt logo in a QGLWidget. Instead of controlling the rotation of the object with the scrollbars, the adapted version uses the accelerometers in the device to move the logo.
This was a simple adaptation: reading the accelerometers is simple:
Nokia-N900-41-10:~# cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-3/3-001d/coord 36 -18 -1134
The application source and a debian package for the N900 are now available.
Here is a screenshot of five running instances in the application overview. The five logos all move if you move the phone.
Perhaps a Qt on Maemo guru can adapt this program to be a desktop widget with a transparent background.
Yesterday nokia gave away 300 pre-production n900 devices to all attendants of this years Maemo summit in Amsterdam (in the form of a six months loan, after that they'll have to go back to Nokia). I'm also attending, so I also got one. Deciding what the first thing to port to a new device is is always hard, but in the end I figured that something with plasma might be nice. As maemo5 makes it possible for home-screen widgets to be part of separate processes, I figured it might be possible to adapt plasmoidviewer to act as a simple program to put any type of plasma applet on the normal maemo desktop (actually, I think it was somebody else that suggested this, I just don't remember who it was). So after several hours of hacking (and a lot more hours of compiling Qt and various parts of kde (btw, the just released Qt 4.6 maemo5 technology preview is missing some essential bits like for example qdbuscpp2xml), I managed to figure out just exactly how to get the window to appear on the normal desktop as a widget. At first this didn't look to pretty as you can see in this screenshot:
But after several more hours of hacking and trying to figure out how transparency works in X11, I even managed to get nice translucent applets. Also I figured out how to hook up the normal maemo5 widget configuration system to display the correct configuration dialog when you click on the configure button on one of these plasmoids. So with in the end maybe 20 lines of code, I got a rather good working implementation that makes it basically possible to have any plasmoid you might have on your normal kde desktop, also on your maemo5 home screen. One (somewhat major) problem with the current implementation is that it is not possible to resize widgets, but as far as I can tell that is mostly a limitation of the maemo5 desktop widget system, so I'm not sure if there is anything I can do about it from my side.
