[IAEP] Read Etexts with offline Gutenberg catalog search

[James Simmons]

Tomeu,

Thanks for the encouragement.  I've been working on this a little each 
day and it's starting to look less like a rigged demo and more like a 
really useful Activity.  I may have something good enough to criticize 
in a week or two.  When I do I'll post it to the Activities site.

Unfortunately, while Gutenberg uses a consistent file naming convention 
for *most* of its content, there are still a fair number of older texts 
that use a naming convention that does not lend itself to automatic 
downloading.  For the time being these books won't be available for 
downloading from my offline catalog search (nothing to stop anyone from 
getting them from the website, though).  Also, I plan to make the 
Activity have some Help text loaded into it when you start it up from 
the Activity ring.  Of course this text would be in English.  I'd like 
to have versions of the text loaded based on the locale, but I don't 
know how to do that in Python.  Pootle, etc. doesn't support that kind 
of thing.

I'm thinking also of modifying View Slides so it can create slideshows 
as well as view them.  I'd write something that would let you select 
images in the Journal and let you add them to the Zip file, resequence 
them, and view them.  Maybe let you use the XO camera too.

The "growing one step at a time" is a necessity considering how little 
time I have to do this kind of work.

James Simmons


Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> I think this an awesome idea and that this attitude of growing one
> step at a time will lead Sugar to a consistent growth. I'm anxious to
> hear how people use your software and which improvements are proposed.
>
> I will love to help give your software to .uy for testing and feedback.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu