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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
Ted is indeed a fine word processor with what seems to be the ideal feature list and modularity for a mobile device. I quite enjoy using it on Linux

The problem is as andrew points out: Without a GTK+ version, you'll need to statically compile the Motif (or Lesstif) libraries in which, AFAICS rules out the (practical?) possibility of any Hildonisation. Then again, Ted's interface is so spartan that we really only need virtual import support.

PS: While browsing the project home page, I came across this intriguing tidbit of text: "Ted 2.11 can be compiled with the GTK+ 1.2.8 toolkit or a later version. The GTK version is not complete and should be seen as step in the right direction." This sounds promising; however, try as I might, I could not find the sources for Ted 2.11.
I found another link today at debian, there is an "experimental" gtk version as well, but I think that the standard version might "just work". I had no problem installing an RPM package from my work machine on my debian box at home. It seems to be happy on a KDE box, so, optimization for GNome might not be necessary. This is probably because of the simplicity of the UI.

DEBIAN packages:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/

SOURCE looks like the source code is at this FTP site:
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted


...Glen
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Last edited by linuxbear; 2007-01-20 at 18:51.