FBReader now working on the FreeRunner

Giovanni pino.otto at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 21:28:12 CEST 2008


Does it also work on OM2007.2?


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Michael Sheldon <mike at mikeasoft.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just spent the day hacking on FBReader to make it work correctly
> under OpenMoko (OM2008.*). Until now it's been pretty much unusable due
> to the GPE version of FBReader expecting you to be using a device that
> has some physical buttons which then get bound to vital functions like
> turning the page. The changes I've made are as follows:
>
>     * Add scroll forward/backward buttons to the toolbar
>     * Add fullscreen mode button to the toolbar (doesn't have an icon
> at the moment, it's the third button from the right)
>     * Change fullscreen mode so that it doesn't hide the toolbar
> (otherwise there's no way to get back from fullscreen mode)
>     * Switch to using the much prettier blue tango icons
>     * Make the line separation larger so the text doesn't overlap
>     * Reduce the font size
>     * Change the default colours to match openmoko's colour scheme
> better (and so it's a little easier on the eyes)
>
> And most importantly…
>
>     * Make it so that tapping the sides of the screen turns the book's
> pages (left = backwards, right = forwards)
>
> Here's a screenshot of what it used to look like:
> http://blog.mikeasoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fbreader-orig.png
>
> And what it looks like with my patches:
> http://blog.mikeasoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fbreader-openmoko.png
>
> To install it simply run:
>
> opkg install http://mikeasoft.com/~mike/openmoko/enca_1.9-r3_armv4t.ipk<http://mikeasoft.com/%7Emike/openmoko/enca_1.9-r3_armv4t.ipk>
>
> http://mikeasoft.com/~mike/openmoko/fbreader_0.8.2a-r6+elleopatches_om-gta02.ipk<http://mikeasoft.com/%7Emike/openmoko/fbreader_0.8.2a-r6+elleopatches_om-gta02.ipk>
> (all on one line)
>
> For those interested the patch can also be downloaded from
> http://mikeasoft.com/~mike/openmoko/fbreader-openmoko.patch<http://mikeasoft.com/%7Emike/openmoko/fbreader-openmoko.patch>
> .
>
> Bonus points for anyone who knows what book I'm testing it with in the
> screenshots (without googling) ;).
>
>  Cheers,
>   Mike.
>
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