I finally received my N800 from TigerDirect today and got OS 2008 installed after charging it up. I bought this N800 mainly as an eBook reader. Now I find out Evince hasn't been ported yet. Maybe I'll downgrade back to OS 2007 if it's going to be awhile for Evince to be ported.
I've tried it, and it isn't that bad. And I tried the FBReader for CHMs, which seems possibly buggy.
I'm used to using an Axim X5 which couldn't read PDF well (unless tagged), but CHM eBooks were ok, just that the screen was too small for either.
I also have some DJVU files, so Evince sounds like a great all-in-one eBook reader.
Don't get me wrong, I've been very excited using this N800 today! But not having Evince is a (temporary?) let down.
I wish there was a way to image everything currently setup under OS 2008 on my N800 so I could install OS 2007, then later restore the OS 2008 image if I find OS 2007 not so good.
I manage to build latest evince 2.21.1 and run it on my 810 yesterday. It worked for me somehow, but the build is far from perfect. It's not hildonized at all and it has some other issues but it can show djvu, comic books, tiffs just fine.
I'm thinking about to create project for it on garage, so everybody who wants to help is welcome.
If you know someone who is already working on evince for OS2008 please let me know.
I am since yesterday evening but dependency handling are made for bora. If you want to play with a hildonized version, you'll have to port the bora version, it's already done.
Add a deb-src bora line to sources.list
apt-get source evince
and try to build it. I've failed on 1 dep and stopped without searching.
This package was done by somebody at Nokia. The quality is very good, maybe it's better to wait for his upgrade. If he doesn't plan to do it, then yes, we'll have to. We have contacted him.
I've seen evince build for bora and decided not to stick with it, but try to port newer version.
I'm going to get hildonization from there though. As far as I can see there is nothing special there and it shouldn't be very difficult to ajust those changes for 2.21.1
Maybe I'll downgrade back to OS 2007 if it's going to be awhile for Evince to be ported.