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    tobias.hunger
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    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!

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

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

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

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            [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

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              giesbert
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              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?

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                goetz
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                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?

                http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                  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

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                    [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?

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                      SteveKing
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                      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?

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