10-18-2023, 06:05 PM
Unfortunately, I have not seen any workable word processor for the PinePhone.
LibreOffice, AbiWord and LyX are not designed for touch devices at all.
Calligra claims to have a touch UI, Calligra Gemini, but it is so horribly buggy and incomplete that it is not even alpha quality. Calligra Gemini basically does not work at all. In the touch UI, I cannot even edit the text of a word processor document. There is a formatting toolbar, but without a working selection mechanism, it is useless as well. Then, the presentation mode is offered even for a word processor document (it makes sense only for presentations), and that mode is a completely unusable mockup: even the exit button does not work! And there is a big time display on top that displays a nonsense time (starting from 23:00:00 no matter what the actual time is, so it is neither a wallclock time nor an elapsed presentation time). And the first slide displayed is a dummy example slide. And all this is in landscape mode only, because Calligra Gemini is even more broken in portrait mode: creating a new document is not doable in portrait mode because the whole screen is taken by the left sidebar, so you cannot choose an option in the main part of the dialog, and the editing touch UI just hangs in portrait mode because the toolbar does not fit the narrow screen. The only part of Calligra Gemini that works is the desktop mode, but that is basically the same as the Calligra desktop applications and completely unsuitable for the PinePhone screen, most of the screen real estate is covered by various sidebars.
Emacs and vim are not word processors at all, they are just text editors. And not even designed for touch interfaces anyway.
LibreOffice, AbiWord and LyX are not designed for touch devices at all.
Calligra claims to have a touch UI, Calligra Gemini, but it is so horribly buggy and incomplete that it is not even alpha quality. Calligra Gemini basically does not work at all. In the touch UI, I cannot even edit the text of a word processor document. There is a formatting toolbar, but without a working selection mechanism, it is useless as well. Then, the presentation mode is offered even for a word processor document (it makes sense only for presentations), and that mode is a completely unusable mockup: even the exit button does not work! And there is a big time display on top that displays a nonsense time (starting from 23:00:00 no matter what the actual time is, so it is neither a wallclock time nor an elapsed presentation time). And the first slide displayed is a dummy example slide. And all this is in landscape mode only, because Calligra Gemini is even more broken in portrait mode: creating a new document is not doable in portrait mode because the whole screen is taken by the left sidebar, so you cannot choose an option in the main part of the dialog, and the editing touch UI just hangs in portrait mode because the toolbar does not fit the narrow screen. The only part of Calligra Gemini that works is the desktop mode, but that is basically the same as the Calligra desktop applications and completely unsuitable for the PinePhone screen, most of the screen real estate is covered by various sidebars.
Emacs and vim are not word processors at all, they are just text editors. And not even designed for touch interfaces anyway.
