Idea for Gutenberg Qt based mobile reader
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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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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?