Nokia to use KOffice on smartphones
September 18, 2009 in News by Alastair Otter
Mobile phone giant Nokia has decided to base its office file viewer for Maemo 5 on KOffice. Nokia’s Thomas Zander announced on his blog yesterday that the company had created a customised GUI based on the Maemo 5 touch screen interface on top of the KOffice core.
Zander also said that the move to include KOffice was part of broader move by Nokia to a QT-based user interface in place of a GTK-based one.
In a subsequent email to the KOffice mailing list Zander said that “for Maemo 5 there will be packages available to install the KOffice core libs, KWord and KPresenter as well as relevant filters on your device. In addition to this we created a Maemo 5 specific User Interface in order to take advantage of the finger based user interactions. The UI has been adapted to fit into the form factor and user interface requirements of the device.”
wonder if there’ll be a version for android phones? as alternative to google docs
KOffice for the win! *^5 Nokia* I was afraid they might go the MS Office route!