Nokia funds KOffice for mobiles

[JZA]

Here is a piece of news that is interesting as KOffice once again change
from becoming multi platform to migrating into the mobile architecture.

http://news.kde.org/2009/10/13/nokia-sponsors-koffice-development-mobile-devices

The development of KOffice on mobile devices really marks one of the OOo
lead requests of having an OOo for PDA and/or mobiles. This puts more
pressure into the project on looking at how can a project like OOo run
efficiently in a mobile environment.

In the past I have used Abiword and Gnumerics on my Nokia770 Internet
tablet. The result where less than useful. However it was good to read files
from my desktops and make tiny edits.

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[Ian Lynch-2]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:54 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

> Here is a piece of news that is interesting as KOffice once again change
> from becoming multi platform to migrating into the mobile architecture.
>
> http://news.kde.org/2009/10/13/nokia-sponsors-koffice-development-mobile-devices
>
> The development of KOffice on mobile devices really marks one of the OOo
> lead requests of having an OOo for PDA and/or mobiles. This puts more
> pressure into the project on looking at how can a project like OOo run
> efficiently in a mobile environment.
>
> In the past I have used Abiword and Gnumerics on my Nokia770 Internet
> tablet. The result where less than useful. However it was good to read files
> from my desktops and make tiny edits.

What happens when someone markets a phone that you can plug in a USB
keyboard and a monitor. Then you don't need a laptop or desktop unless
you are doing something specialist. For Office applications surely this
can't be far away.

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[Andre Schnabel]

Hi,

Ian schrieb:

>
>> http://news.kde.org/2009/10/13/nokia-sponsors-koffice-development-mobile-devices
>>
>> The development of KOffice on mobile devices really marks one of the OOo
>> lead requests of having an OOo for PDA and/or mobiles. This puts more
>> pressure into the project on looking at how can a project like OOo run
>> efficiently in a mobile environment.
>> ....
> What happens when someone markets a phone that you can plug in a USB
> keyboard and a monitor. Then you don't need a laptop or desktop unless
> you are doing something specialist. For Office applications surely this
> can't be far away.
>  

Don't get puzzeled by the headline and have in mind, what is really
going on.Quote from the text:


> The team working on the KOffice libraries focused on getting KOffice
> ready as a backend for the document viewer.

So Nokia is *not* bringing KOffice "as is" to mobile devices. There are
just people woring on libraries, that will be the backend for a viewer
application.


Referring to OOo in this context is not to speak about "OOo on mobile
phones" (what imho is rather stupid and time wasting) but about using
some parts of OOo as backend in other applications. (Again the topic of
modlarization and reuse).


BTW.: I have no idea, why Nokiais investing in "KOffice libs" as backend
for a viewer application. Okular is already very good in diplaying
office (including ODF) documents - and Okular's UI is surely easier to
adopt to moobile devices than the UI of an office application.

André

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[JZA]

2009/10/18 André Schnabel <andre.schnabel@...>:

> Hi,
>
> Ian schrieb:
>>
>>>
>>> http://news.kde.org/2009/10/13/nokia-sponsors-koffice-development-mobile-devices
>>>
>>> The development of KOffice on mobile devices really marks one of the OOo
>>> lead requests of having an OOo for PDA and/or mobiles. This puts more
>>> pressure into the project on looking at how can a project like OOo run
>>> efficiently in a mobile environment.
>>> ....
>>
>> What happens when someone markets a phone that you can plug in a USB
>> keyboard and a monitor. Then you don't need a laptop or desktop unless
>> you are doing something specialist. For Office applications surely this
>> can't be far away.
>
> Don't get puzzeled by the headline and have in mind, what is really going
> on.Quote from the text:
>
>
>> The team working on the KOffice libraries focused on getting KOffice ready
>> as a backend for the document viewer.
>
> So Nokia is *not* bringing KOffice "as is" to mobile devices. There are just
> people woring on libraries, that will be the backend for a viewer
> application.
>
>
> Referring to OOo in this context is not to speak about "OOo on mobile
> phones" (what imho is rather stupid and time wasting) but about using some
> parts of OOo as backend in other applications. (Again the topic of
> modlarization and reuse).
>
>
> BTW.: I have no idea, why Nokiais investing in "KOffice libs" as backend for
> a viewer application. Okular is already very good in diplaying office
> (including ODF) documents - and Okular's UI is surely easier to adopt to
> moobile devices than the UI of an office application.
>
> André

Hi Andre, actually KOffice already works on the N900, but at it's
present form some UI simply doesn't work or is too large to run on the
tiny screen. However I had already a N770 and work with Abiword and
Gnumerics without much problem.
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/gnumeric/

You can also see most KDE apps running natively on the Maemo N900:
http://news.kde.org/2009/10/12/free-n900

During the Gran Canarias desktop summit there was a big talk about KDE
moving to the mobile platform, basically not just having a UI for the
netbook market but since Nokia owns Trolltech there is a revamped
interested to make KDE apps including KOffice run on the mobile space.
Something that they have come up as KDE Mobile edition:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=98312&file1=98312-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=KDE+Mobile+Edition+-+UIQ3

Is not that far to imagine that having the KOffice people present
during the past Maemo talk in Amsterdam lead to this announcement.
http://www.kdenews.org/2009/10/11/maemo-conference-2009-amsterdam


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OpenOffice.org Español
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