[maemo-developers] Curious: Maemo devices other than Nokia?

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 06:42:00PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> <rant>
> Firstly, one needs a VKB. now hildon-input is mostly open source,

Is it?  The framework, yes, but I think the actual virtual keyboard and
handwriting recognition plugins are closed.

> but when you have a real distribution, it's a lot more annoying that
> only gtk2 applications have input. Acceptable, at least we have osso-xterm -
> Oops no, xterm uses hildon_gtk_im_context_show() to show the vkb,
> which is only available in maemo version of *gtk+2.0* - what a lovely
> layering violation.

What layering violation?  osso-xterm is entirely based on gnome-terminal
(libvte, actually).  The name is a bit misleading -- it's not related to
the real xterm, it just performs the same function.

<snip>
> So now there is a hildon-desktop, terminal, network-manager and a vkb.
> Only such minor details as web browser is missing, and the themes/icons
> having a funny license.  But it just a matter of sorting all pieces 
> together
> to get fully OSS rootfs built out of Debian to support the basic use cases
> of internet browsing, email and so on.

But not fast battery charging.  IIRC.

Marius Gedminas
who would love to see a pure OSS alternative to IT OS.
-- 
If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL
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