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Old 08-10-2010, 11:20 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Dzha View Post

1. Build a layer on top the kernel to make it close to generic Unix platform and adopt existing open source apps for it. High effort, long term.
2. Build FBreader with QT (using the sudoku experience). Should be possible to run it stand alone and load fb2 from the file system. Medium effort, short term project.

Please, tell me what you think.

I think this is a great idea. I think a lot of people would like to see a feature like this.

However you are aware that the Kindle is running a full Linux version, it's Ubuntu 9.04 port to ARM. You don't need to build an abstraction layer.

I've never used FBreader. Is this program capable of managing a filesystem, (i.e. books) within the program? If so I would modify the initialization scripts to automatically launch FBreader. Set it to respawn in case the user closes the FBreader or it crashes the FBreader will restart.


Also the "QT experience" is a good place to start.

What I would like to see is a way to toggle between FBReader and Amazon's existing GUI. This way we get the best of both worlds, I know you don't care much for the Amazon skin, but some features are essential like reading DRM Mobi books.

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