[maemo-developers] Qt4 hildonization.

[From: Sebastian Mancke]

Hi Antonio,

Antonio Aloisio schrieb:
> I've found kkito, a kde developer that probably has got interesting
> patches. But it's a old user, so it's unavailable. I'm trying to
> contact him...
> PS: Can i use Dbus to create Menus and to call/comunicate with
> On-Screen keyboard?
> (i don't know hildon well yet!)

I'm working on an input method wrapper for java Swing. Since I'm using
Swing with a gtk peer, it is somewhat simpler than your qt effort. Maybe
you should take a look at [1] to get an idea of how it works normally/in
my case.

Text Input:
For text input in hildon, a window has to communicate with the virtual
keyboard using special X Messages. This protocol is not documented (or I
can't find it). The best documentation I found is [2] (with some source
code links [3]). Nokia has released the HildonInput Framework to go to
the gnome upstream [4]. Since that step, the source code of the gtk-side
X protocol implementation is available. The most interesting part for
you should be in [5].

It would help a lot, if an ongoing implementation would start with a
refactoring of the code in [5], to separate the protocol handling from
the gtk logic and get one piece of code which could be used by all
implementations.

Menus:
The hildon Menu implementation seems to be a simple pop up menu, which
is displayed on the upper left corner. I think you have to reimplement
this in qt in a similar way.

--Sebastian

[1]
https://evolvis.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/maemo/hildon_swing_input/?root=jalimo
[2] http://maemo.org/community/wiki/inputmethod/
[3] https://garage.maemo.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=5
[4] http://live.gnome.org/Hildon/HildonInputMethod
[5]
https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/hildon-input-method-framework/src/hildon-im-context.c
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