New Packages

[kunal ghosh]

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 <aseigo at kde.org> 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.
>
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Kunal Ghosh
Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering.
Sir MVIT
Bangalore,India

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