[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] non-maemo apps in toolbar

[From: Mark Arrasmith]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 21:53, Aaron Levinson wrote:
> Effectively, this means that users won't be able to input anything into
> the application besides mouse strokes and clicks.  If the application is
> entirely mouse-driven, that might be okay, but in addition, it won't be a
> maemo application, and there will be other issues besides the lack of
> input methods.

I've used things like xstroke and the keymacs keyboard app on tablet PC's as 
well as the Agenda VR3 ... so it did seem kind of strange how maemo was 
handling the keyboard.  Thanks for the extra info.

I suppose I can work around it for now by just porting keymacs to the 770.  
But, for card games I didn't need a keyboard anyway.

> As a general rule, building and running strictly X applications isn't
> going to cut it on the 770, and a true port of a GUI application to the
> maemo platform requires some programming, quite possibly extensive
> programming if the original application is only written using X.

Just out of curiosity.  Anyone know why this direction way chosen?  

It is easy enough to have an open system like the typical KDE, GNOME, XFCE, 
FLTK or whatever toolbar and keyboards like keymacs.  Where all the running 
X11 apps show up and the software keyboard+HWR can write to them.  I do this 
all the time on a tablet PC with an FLTK based keyboard+HWR (keymacs).  And I 
can use KDE or gtk applications without any problem.

Basically, why tie input so tightly to maemo?  And on an X11 environment where 
you could run any application?

- mark