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

[From: Riku Voipio]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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.
>   
The input framework is OSS and it includes a example VKB. I
believe the example VKB is different from what is included
in ITOS.
>   
>> 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.
>   
The layering violation is including a function
hildon_gtk_im_context_show() inside *gtk-2-0*. And the call for
that is in osso-xterm because vte doesn't appear as a normal
gtk input field, and thus osso-xterm needs to summon the input
method itself.
>> 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.
>   
I don't think that is part of the rootfs.