[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Input Method Documentation

[From: Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com]

Hi,

Nice work. There is already input method HowTo:
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToInputMethod770

Would be nice to either merge those two or at least cross-reference
them.

Br,

--jakub 

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext 
>Phil Cowans
>Sent: 02 April, 2006 11:45
>To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
>Subject: Re: [maemo-developers] Input Method Documentation
>
>> > I just thought you might be interested in some notes I made on the 
>> > IM framework having spent an afternoon figuring out how it works:
>> >
>> > http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/pjc51/hildon_im.txt
>> >
>> > Hope it's useful,
>> 
>> Well I'm not working in this area myself, but judging by recent 
>> conversations on this list I expect this will be very useful for the 
>> people who were having those conversations.
>
>Great - I've moved it over to the wiki so that others can contribute:
>
>http://maemo.org/maemowiki/InputMethod
>
>> Does this also mean that we may be getting a port of Dasher for the 
>> 770 soon?  I really hope so!
>>
>> My understanding is that when your team last tried to port Dasher, 
>> there were two issues.  (1) was that the Hildon IM framework wasn't 
>> open; but I presume that is solved (or in the process of 
>being solved) 
>> by the analysis that you have posted.  (2) was that Dasher's CPU 
>> requirement was too much for the 770 - do you have a 
>solution for this 
>> now as well?
>
>This is indeed the plan. (1) is coming along pretty well. I 
>haven't stared on (2) yet, but there's quite a lot of scope 
>for various optimisations so I'm hoping it's not too much of a 
>problem. I'll let you all know when I have something which is usable.
>
>Phil
>
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