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

[From: Eero Tamminen]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:36:45PM +0000, Matthew Allum wrote:
> > As to the input method, maybe the program could depend from
> > xkbd (AFAIK doesn't support unicode, but as it works by synthetizing
> > key events with XTest extension it should work with all X programs)
> 
> Xkbd is dead dead dead. Use matchbox-keyboard instead ( its a complete
> much needed rewrite ), it supports full UTF8 but lacks a couple of
> minor things like images on keys and themeing.

Good!

 
> Oh and its svn only :( See;
> 
> http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/matchbox/trunk/matchbox-keyboard/README

Is there something preventing releasing it? :-)


> > and launch it when the program itself is started?
> 
> To make an input window work in maemo env ( this is different to
> defualt mb input win handling ) you need to have it set its transiency
> to the window its entering data for.

I think this would be undesirable as then the application window
would be resized.  This discussion was mostly about stuff like
SDL games which don't handle window resizes.  Therefore the
input method should be above the "application" window, not
make it to resize.


> matchbox-keyboard doesn't do this.
> but you could just embed matchbox-keyboard via XEMBED in some
> kind of wrapper of your toolkit of choice that handles the transiency
> or just avoid input windows all togeather and embed it direct in your
> app.



	- Eero