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Ah, I wasn't aware that PyQT and PySide lack QTWebKit modules in Maemo 5. Hopefully, the support for that won't take very long, but then again, you never know.

As for gutting Anki, to be honest, I have no idea if it'd be possible to do (within a reasonable amount of time). I don't really know how it's built up either (I've never delved into the code), but it doesn't load any external web pages (it only syns with a web server which is text based), so I'm assuming that the webkit is just for formatting. But I honestly don't know. I'll try looking into it a bit closer next week, I really gotta finish my exam first >.<

Right. I am only off on Tues. and Wed myself. If we did decide gutting the webkit stuff was feasible, i'd want to contact the anki guys first, if not purely out of respect.

Correction. Someone has already ported the application.Don't know why copying the old code and trying to run it gave QtWebkit errors....

Still not running yet, but i'm testing right now.

EDIT:
Ankiqt doesn't want to load, but ankimaemi seems to work. Can't import yet, but this may be a scratchbox limitation...

Kudos to who ever worked on that port. Looks good even.

Really? Wow, cool. All that debating for nothing? =P Anyhow, this may sound like a stupid question, but what is Scratchbox? I've only heard it mentioned in a couple of places around the forum, but I haven't really grasped what it is in practice. It sounds like some sort of Maemo emulation used for development, but I could be wrong. If so, how do I fix it? =) I tried searching maemo.org, but couldn't really find any good info on it.

Scratchbox is a development environment that allows to you cross-compile programs for armel-based processors (in this case, the one for n900) on x86 based platforms.

Using it and Xephyr, you can test (with varying degress of success) programs for your NIT. While it's not an emulator per se, it does allow you to see how your program would look. I've attached an images showing it running under KDE 4.3 in Linux. My desktop is rather large for a screenshot, so I only captured the window itself.

You can find more [accurate] information my clicking on the Development link above and selecting "Download the Maemo 5 SDK".

Anyways, my N900 comes today, so I'll be able to see what's going on.

Thanks! I'll definitely check it out. Might I ask where you found the port of Anki? I checked their garage page, but that still hasn't been updated since the beginning of this year.

Been using Ankionline. It's not the real deal, but its ok. Waiting for a port as I am completely lost as to how Linux/Meomo and everything else you are talking about works.

The only problem I have with Ankionline is that it renders some kanji incorrectly like Firefox on Vista. Fortunately, I can recognize them, although it is annoying.

Using Ankionline is only an option when you're in the country where your flatrate is valid though (or on a wifi-network). I intend to use the N900 on my travels for reviewing, in which case Ankionline is not really an alternative since the roaming rates will be ridiculous =P

Did some research and found this page: http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/Anki%20on%20Maemo

Apparently the reason ankimaemi isn't working properly is in part due to the fact that it requires python gtkhtml, which is only available for OS2008(Diablo).

I'm going to try again to get ankiqt working and wil report back.

Aah, that page. I've read it, but apparently not well enough. Good luck getting ankiqt working! I'll be looking forward to hearing how it goes.

...Damn I want that N900 so I can start testing things myself >.<

I see a few ankis in the extras-devel repository:

anki-0.9.9.7.9-1
ankimaemi-0.0.7-2
ankiqt-0.9.9.7.9-3

I haven't checked to see the differences between them yet though.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel

-Jeff
http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba