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. > 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. <snip> > So now there is a hildon-desktop, terminal, network-manager and a vkb. > Only such minor details as web browser is missing, and the themes/icons > having a funny license. 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. Marius Gedminas who would love to see a pure OSS alternative to IT OS. -- If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL
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