[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo on hx4700 ipaq

[From: David Bolter]

Koen Kooi wrote:

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>>On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 02:24 +1300, ext Bernard Mentink wrote:
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>>>Will support for resolutions other than 800x480 be supported at any
>>>time soon so that Maemo can be run on the likes of the hx4700
>>>(640x480)??
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>>Technically speaking you can already run Maemo on any resolution, it'll
>>just look goofy. You can easily check how badly things will break by
>>running Xephyr in desired resolution rather than 800x480
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>>We are aware of the hardcoded limitations in places and are working to
>>make things more flexible in the future. However as you probably know
>>the next software release is still going to be running on the same
>>hardware.
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>>>Is there changes to the UI that could be done at present to allow that
>>>resolution?
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>>There are some changes you can do simply by replacing the png files with
>>a bit smaller ones and editing the gtkrc accordingly. For others you
>>need to change (or preferrably remove) some hardcoded pixel measurements
>>in the code. In some cases you may even need to do a different layout,
>>like remove the number pad from the VKB.
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>>Currently the VKB is probably the trickiest part as the code isn't open,
>>but for the rest it's just work to be done...
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I'm not sure if it has been discussed on this list but there is a fairly 
mature gpl on-screen keyboard that might be adapted to maemo.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/AT/GOK/index.html
http://www.gok.ca/

cheers,
David

>Are the layouts built in to the binary or do they live somewhere in /etc
>or /usr/share? If it's the former you could use matchbox-keyboard
>(http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/) instead.
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>regards,
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>Koen
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