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

[From: Riku Voipio]

>>> 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.
>>   
>>     
> Has anyone had any problem ever with the example VKB?
>
>   
In my testing it has worked fine.  My intention was to say
to Marius that the "actual virtual keyboard" included in ITOS
is still closed, but hildon-input includes a functional
VKB nevertheless.

>>
>> The layering violation is including a function
>> hildon_gtk_im_context_show() inside *gtk-2-0*. And the call for
>>   
>>     
> What's the problem? Why we could not have our own custom functionality
> in our Gtk+ tree?
>
>   

It breaks API and ABI compatibility, and makes it very probable
that future ITOS editions are not binary compatible with applications
compiled with current version. It becomes a maintenance headache
for Nokia when you cannot upgrade to new versions of gtk+2.0 before
extracting all the modifications from the old versions.

If adding hildon_* functions to gtk is not a problem, why bother creating
a libhildon in first place?

Custom functionality in gtk is evil. Adding functionality to gtk that
have been coordinated with upstream to be added in future versions of
gtk is good.