Hello;

ext Riku Voipio wrote:
> 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.
>   
Has anyone had any problem ever with the example VKB?

>>   
>>     
>>> 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
>   
What's the problem? Why we could not have our own custom functionality
in our Gtk+ tree?

> 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.
>
>
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