Activities/Read Etexts: Difference between revisions

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* Text to speech does not work perfectly. The gstreamer plugin combined with newer versions of espeak works much better than the original speech-dispatcher code did, but in Sugar on a Stick on ''some'' machines the text highlighting lags badly behind the spoken words.

* Sharing documents works, but the progress report text does not. You only see the final totals, not the counts of bytes dowloaded so far. View Slides had a similar problem which I fixed. When I tried the same code to fix Read Etexts it caused the Activity to hang, possibly because of multi-threading issues. Text documents are generally small enough that it is tolerable not to have this working.

* There is no word-wrap feature for books with long lines. At the moment I consider this more of a feature than a bug, because all of the many thousands of Project Gutenberg Etexts available use a standard line width so word-wrapping isn't really necessary.

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 * Text to speech does not work perfectly.  The gstreamer plugin combined with newer versions of espeak works much better than the original speech-dispatcher code did, but in Sugar on a Stick on ''some'' machines the text highlighting lags badly behind the spoken words.
-* Sharing documents works, but the progress report text does not.  You only see the final totals, not the counts of bytes dowloaded so far.  View Slides had a similar problem which I fixed.  When I tried the same code to fix Read Etexts it caused the Activity to hang, possibly because of multi-threading issues.  Text documents are generally small enough that it is tolerable not to have this working.
 * There is no word-wrap feature for books with long lines.  At the moment I consider this more of a feature than a bug, because all of the many thousands of Project Gutenberg Etexts available use a standard line width so word-wrapping isn't really necessary.