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

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:28:42PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 06:42:00PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> >>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.

Ah, that's good to know!

> >>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*. 

As opposed to in libhildon.  I see.  I misunderstood your original
statement.

Marius Gedminas
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