[maemo-developers] Looking for help from a GTK guy with 2 projects

[From: Ивайло Димитров]

 Meh. The reason why QT keyboard would not be acceptable to replace hildon vkb is very simple - QT memory footprint. Did you forget n900 comes with 256MB of RAM? And running even simple QT/QML application consumes about 8%-10% of that? While it sounds very good in theory, in practice(under memory pressure) it would just slow the device even further.



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 >От:  Michael Hasselmann  
 >Относно: Re: Looking for help from a GTK guy with 2 projects
 >До: Jonathan Wilson  
 >Изпратено на: Понеделник, 2011, Ноември 14 02:45:40 EET

 >On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 17:53 +0800, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
 >> > Have you considered Maliit?
 >> > http://wiki.maliit.org/Documentation/Installing#Maemo_5_.28Fremantle.29
 >> That looks nice but:
 >> 1.Its clearly stated that its use on Maemo5 is "not ready for prime time"
 >> 2.Its written in QT (and not only that, it uses QT version labeled 
 >> "experimental") and takes over a lot more of the input system than I would 
 >> like (including not using Maemo keyboard layouts which is something I want 
 >> to keep doing)
 >> and 3.There is no way Maliit or anything based on it would be accepted into 
 >> the CSSU because of #1 and #2. (and the CSSU is the eventual target for any 
 >> keyboard replacement.
 >
 >Huh? You sound a bit confused, my friend. Since when would being
 >Qt-based be a reason against inclusion in CSSU? These days, QML + PySide
 >is all the rage, and Qt has been in base Maemo5 image for ages now.
 >
 >Maliit is not ready for prime-time for Fremantle because no one is
 >actively working on it. What I did back then was a proof of concept,
 >nothing more.
 >
 >We do have GTK+ support and we even took in some matchbox-specific
 >patches. But you need to scratch your own itch. You cannot expect others
 >to do it for you. That's just how open-source works. So yes, it requires
 >someone to work on it, and while it won't be me, I'll gladly accept
 >patches. In an open-source community, your first argument simply doesn't
 >hold.
 >
 >You also seem to ignore that it wouldn't only be the MeeGo Keyboard from
 >Harmattan that you could get (together with all the language layouts
 >that have gone through extensive usability tests). Maliit is a fully
 >pluggable framework. Hildon IM was that, too, which is no surprise, as
 >Maliit is the legitimate successor of Hildon IM – in fact, it's been
 >designed by the same architect. The architecture allows the possibility
 >to run other Maliit plugins, Swype being one of them (on the N9), see
 >http://wiki.maliit.org/Plugins
 >
 >Sorry to sound harsh, but your arguments appear to belong in the
 >category of rationalize-after-the-fact (of having decided to go with
 >reverse engineering hildon-im-vkbrenderer). I know that you're looking
 >for a cool hack, and I wish you good luck with that. But why not invest
 >your time in something with wider benefits and contribute to an active
 >project?
 >
 >regards,
 >Michael
 >
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