Idea for Gutenberg Qt based mobile reader

[tobias.hunger]

Gerolf: No, I don't want boooring footage of people walking down a street. I just want the "bump into signpost edition" without all the boring stuff...

Phones do have accelerometers, so it should be possible to capture the running-into moment!

[andre]

Question is: does the WeTab have accelerometers? That was what this app had to run on, right?

[giesbert]

If the app is finished, it should be Qt. If it's Qt, it can run on symbian smartphones... :-)

[andre]

Form factors are quite different though, so that would require a different UI.

[Guest]

[quote author="Andre" date="1300177005"]Question is: does the WeTab have accelerometers? That was what this app had to run on, right? [/quote]

oh yes it does ... details "here":http://wetab.mobi/en/product/

now we've gone totally off track ... why give an accelerometer thingy for a simple reader .. reader first then bumping next :P

[giesbert]

But then you miss the first bumps...

@Andre: Yes, thge mobiles hgave difgferent form factors.
But I think, the more effort is the rest, not the UI itself for eBook readers, right?

[goetz]

I'm not sure if I really want to create a Gutenberg app. I've looked around on their web page, and it seems to be a big mess. You have at least 6 (six!) different formats (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Plucker, QiOO, UTF-8 text and then variants with and without images) with no strong preference for either one. Are those guys really serious?

[Guest]

volker, the online books part they are serious, not sure about the reader part though :)
but there are some readers for other platforms already available. also I believe html and txt are std formats for all books

[Guest]

[quote author="Volker" date="1300191011"]I'm not sure if I really want to create a Gutenberg app. I've looked around on their web page, and it seems to be a big mess. You have at least 6 (six!) different formats (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Plucker, QiOO, UTF-8 text and then variants with and without images) with no strong preference for either one. Are those guys really serious?[/quote]

one easy solution to have a Qt reader (if not a browser bookmark) ... have a QWebkit app pointing to the mobile site of "gutenberg":http://m.gutenberg.org/ and you are done. Fun would be to add Kindle like features to this basic app ... an audio reader, helpful buttons, on hover dictionary etc ... game anyone?

[SteveKing]

I'd been toying with this idea for a while, but the number of formats, and my (in)competence, had also put me off. One idea I had was to use Qt Plugins for the different formats, but that leads me to the following questions: Does Qt on Symbian support plugins (I assume it does), and also can plugins be bundled on the Ovi store as additions to existing apps?