Vido

David Reyes Samblas Martinez david at tuxbrain.com
Wed Feb 3 04:49:50 EST 2010


and of course all people involved on this, :)

2010/2/3 David Reyes Samblas Martinez <david at tuxbrain.com>:
> Great!!! thanks a lot mirko :)
>
> 2010/2/3 Mirko Lindner <mirko at sharism.cc>:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I just wanted to give you a little progress report on vido [1].
>>
>> After the openzim developer-meeting [2] quite a few changes were made to the
>> format to allow the usage of zim files even on limited devices such as the
>> Ben NanoNote.
>>
>> Last night, after finally finding the right file, I managed to get the full
>> german wikipedia (without images) to run nicely. The file is on the openzim
>> server in their download section[3].
>>
>> There are quite a few neat functions in vido. Please be patient with it,
>> responses are not instant, but it does what you ask it after 1-2s at the
>> most. There are still a few quirks here and there. Scrolling is not optimal,
>> the way links can be selected deserves another look etc etc. But the
>> foundation works.
>>
>> One word abotu the zim files. Currently there are only german wiki files
>> that have been tested. I will dive into the mechanism of creating other zim
>> files as soon as I get back from FOSDEM. I have been told there is a process
>> for that already, but it is not well documented. We are also in talks with
>> the Wikimedia Foundation and other wikis to get them to publish wiki files
>> themselves.
>>
>> If anyones feels like diving into the code to make it better, faster, nicer
>> please go ahead. Just contact me for git access and such.
>>
>> Once again a big yay for the openzim project!
>>
>> Ok, here a small list of what vido can do:
>>
>> - open and display contents of a zim file (on the console):
>> vido [PATH TO FILE]
>>
>> - get a random article (in vido):
>>
>> ctrl + r
>>
>> - search for an article (in vido):
>>
>> ctrl + s
>>
>> - go back to last article (in vido):
>>
>> ctrl + b
>>
>> - go to next article (if you went back before) (in vido):
>>
>> ctrl + f
>>
>> - display your history (in vido):
>>
>> ctrl + h
>>
>> - go to top (in vido):
>>
>> ctrl + t
>>
>> To move through links in an article use TAB. If you only want to scroll use
>> the arrow keys.
>>
>> Note: If you scroll the cursor doesn't move, which means that if you tab
>> after you scrolled for a while the display will go back to the last link you
>> selected.
>>
>> /mirko
>>
>> [1] http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/vido/
>> [2] http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2009-2
>> [3] http://openzim.org/ZIM_File_Archive
>>
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http://www.tuxbrain.com
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Ben NanoNote, Arduino, Openmoko
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