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

[From: Matthew Allum]

Hi;

On 1/9/06, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at movial.fi> wrote:
>
> > Oh and its svn only :( See;
> >
> > http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/matchbox/trunk/matchbox-keyboard/README
>
> Is there something preventing releasing it? :-)
>

Yes, layout does not work as good as it should for small displays (
240x320 ). I wanted to fix this before release.

>
> > > 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.
>

I dont think this can be done currently. best bet would be to XEmbed
mb-kb directly in app for this kind of thing.

  -- Matthew