<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:55 PM, James Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Gonzalo, I finally had a chance to try out your Get Books. While I think there are some good improvements over my original "Get Internet Archive Books", especially displaying an image for selected books, it falls short in a few places. For example: </blockquote><div> Thanks James, I really appreciate your feedback. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 1). There is no need to leave behind a Journal entry when using Get Books. If you look at Get IA Books you'll see that the only Journal entries it creates are the books it downloads. It's simple to change your Activity to do the same thing, and it will free up some space on the toolbar too. </blockquote><div> Ok, I agree. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 2). When you do a search using more than one word it generally does not work. For instance, search for "boys aviation" in my Activity and it will return "The Big Book of Aviation For Boys" by Joseph Lewis French. Yours returns nothing. Search for "sugar activities" in mine and you'll get "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" by James Simmons. Yours returns a title that seems to have nothing to do with either word. What you want to be able to do is search for words in either author or title and return those results containing all the words, in any order. Mine does that, but yours does not. </blockquote><div> You are not using OPDS in IA server, right? I think the OPDS implementation is not very good. Obviusly i can steal code from your application (again). </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 3). Searching for "charles dickens" in yours returns lots of results but made the Activity and Sugar itself hang. </blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 4). My Activity supports downloading DejaVu, PDF, and EPUB. Yours does not support DejaVu for the Internet Archive, which is unfortunate because for the XO it is the best available format. PDFs use more memory, and EPUBs from IA are full of errors. </blockquote><div> Ok. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Supporting other OPDS services is great, but not if the child has to open Terminal. change to root, and create a file. You really need to store the configuration info in a directory that is writeable by the Activity, and provide a dialog to do the config. </blockquote><div> Is not the idea. The configuration is to enable to the deployments to add/remove servers. Really, there are not too much server today, but I am trying to improve Pathagar to use it. May be later we can add a screen to configure it, but I don't think is necessary now. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> If you want to test this with other OPDS catalogs, I understand that calibre can publish such a catalog in addition to the website it creates. I would have tried testing like that myself if I knew the format of the config file. Also, I didn't think the catalog feature was that useful. If you let the child enter more than one search word as I described you don't really need it. </blockquote><div> I think different (tm) here. Is not very useful to you or to me because we know what are searching. I can search Jules Verne or Dickens because I know them. But if you are a child, can look to adventure or science fiction books and open a door to authors or book you don't know. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> James Simmons <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:gonzalo@laptop.org">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to continue the work done by Sayamindu in the GetBooks activity > and I have a initial version to test and get feedback. > This is a unofficial testing release > New Features: > * Old and New toolbars support. > * Reworked user interface. > * Filter by language (working only in Feedboks server) > * Display of book cover > * Initial support to OPDS Catalogs. > * Support for configuration of local deployments > > The configuration can be done adding a file /etc/get-books.cfg and allows: > * enable/disable off cover display > * enable/disable language filter > * add or remove OPDS sources. > > You can download it from <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/%7Egonzalo/GetBooks-6.xo" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/GetBooks-6.xo</a> > > I have used code from a modified activity from Ceibal project. > I think the Catalogs button is not optimal (the icon and the menu), but i > want it in the first toolbar. Any idea is welcomed. > Also i want know if the deployment need any other configuration/feature. > Send me any other idea/comment. > > Gonzalo > </div></div></blockquote></div>