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To late already reflashed

You see, complaining and reflashing is more fun than learning and fixing something, and not even having to restore any data.

Seriously, I don't understand why someone who hates mucking with their tablet would try installing a different OS (even in a chroot) before they read up on it.

Must be an Ex-Windows user!

It is interesting to observe the difference in troubleshooting philosophy in the two camps. Windows users are quick to wipe things clean and re-install, since from experience this is often what they end up doing anyway after trying to fix their system. *nix users instead will spend what ever time required to "fix" their system. I fact, I often get criticized for spending too much time fixing Windows machines (although I'm usually successful, it is just that I sometimes take a long time to do it).


Anyway, back on topic, a better refined Abiword port would be fine for me. I'd like to be able to read (and it doesn't have to be formatted perfectly) any word doc someone may send me in E-mail, and on rare occasions where I dont' have my Laptop, but do have my N810 AND MY USB ROLL-UP KEYBOARD, I may actually produce and/or edit a document to be sent out in Word format.

As far as Gnumeric doing multiple sheets, I figured out how to do it:
From the menu select "Format" then "Sheet" then "Manage Sheets".
This will pull up a box that allows you to move them around, duplicate, etc
but also it will select which one you want to be current.

Yes, a bit awkward, but I think the maemo version is missing the toolbar one would normally use.


For me these are not "must-have" apps, but ones I would expect to have available on an open Linux based system like the NIT. I guess I'm must a little spoiled.

Benson:

Thanks!

What's a good source for help files or a tutorial on gnumeric on the n800?

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I still use Windows!!! I did read up on the guest os and found the consept easy to follow. Please note that I am only trying to be helpful. I am sorry if I affended anyone.
one I am new to comand lines two I am only a teenager, three I had just flashed to diablo a few days ago and it would be faster to just reflash ( I have a copy of Diablo and it was easer to just reflash. I do wish that I had maybe waited until Some one had responded to my post but I didn't really want to wait. Now that I done defending myself thanks for the help with gnumeric it is much needed. BTW does any one know how to set up scrachbox on a windows mechine or do I need to be running some kind of linux.

Well you can get a help documentation from the Gnumeric website try this linkhttp://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumer...gnumeric.shtml it is for the desktop version but it may be usefull

Getting the wysiwyg effect seems to be (more?) difficult with gtk which i would guess is why we haven't seen more simple editors.

itt user 'free' compiled the qt4 libraries and sample applications and it came with a simple (example) wysiwyg editor that supports basic alignment, font picker/size/ color, print preview, and save to html or pdf format. No scim support though so its mostly for 810 users and you wont have access to some keyboard chr symbols.

I made an isorun app of it which i would consider the best 'minimal' editor for casual notetaking, and minimal space considerations ( < 10 meg.. and that can be on sd card).

Just install two debs, then download the iso to anywhere and run it from emelfm2 or make personal menu shortcut to 'isorun /media/mmc1/iso-images/free-qt-textedit.iso' or wherever you put it.

So you could download :
Penguinbaits cdrom/iso support deb
Install IsoMount
Then download the iso to somewhere (and extract zip)

(reboot so cdrom driver can initialize)

Nowhere near as nice as abiword but much nicer (for 810 users or keyboard users) than the built in notes imo for jotting notes you want to use elsewhere.

Maybe now that official qt4 libs are being created, more qt apps/editors can be built.

Sounds cool do I need to install a guest Operating System? Is Isorun the name of the editer?? anyway I still don't fully understand QT4 for OS2008 is it a guest operating system or an emulator. BTW does the editor support .doc format?

The editor only supports html loading/saving and pdf export.

QT4 is a set of visual components like listboxes, text boxes, buttons. It is alternative to gtk with different functionality and appearance. The editor is just an example made by qt4 people to show off their edit controls. So just this sample is better than the notes application in maemo. You can call it 'qt4 textedit'

What I did was grab some qt4 libraries and put them in iso so you dont even need to know about qt4.. that was just for explanation as to why it looks different (better, i think)

This is not a chroot applicaton like debian... but what it does do is put the program and a few needed qt4 libraries into an iso so you can mount the filesystem later (using isomount) and run. The iso acts like a virtual cdrom and its as if you put a cdrom in your drive and just ran it off cdrom... except the iso file is stored anywhere.

So the first deb installs the cdrom driver enabling maemo to understand iso9660 filesystem (might need reboot before you can actually mount)
The second deb installs my helper scripts to make mounting and autorunning isos easier.
The third file is actual iso file containing the mountable filesystem (qt4 textedit).

In theory this could have used regular ext2 filesystem (to avoid needing first cdrom driver) but i have other isos and its easier to create and manage iso9660 files.

In theory this could have been a traditional deb but that would probably have required you to install the qt4 libraries which are still changing and add more bulk than the handpicked (needed only) libs for this app.

This -could- be rigged into a simple deb without installing qt4 libs, cdrom, or isomount separately...bthis would just be a 1 deb install... if interested I could probably put together.

You can find a couple of these basic qt editors in the following old thread:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13251