ext John Meacham wrote: > I got my nokia 770 the other day and love it. I have already started > porting stuff and am happy to say my jhc haskell compiler can cross > compile to maemo just fine. > > In any case, looking at the memory usage, hildon-input-method takes up a > whopping 6.3 megs of real ram along with a decent chunk of x resources > as reported by xrestop. This seems like an absurd amount for the little > pretty cruddy (no offense) onscreen keyboard. it is the second largest > user of memory after the desktop itself! > It was optimized mainly for speed, nobody wants to write with a slow one. It is hard to make a gtk-themable keyboard in that size without using some memory and still be fast. What was your method of looking memory usage? I have Massif graphs of IM taking ~3 MB at max.
> So I whipped up a little X keyboard which uses a more reasonable tens of > k of RAM, and want to know the absolute shortest path to replacing the > built in input method with it. I know I have to create a gtk-immodule, > but can't find documentation anywhere about how to do that or how to get > rid of hildon-input-method once I create my gtk-immodule. I am very > familier with low level X11 programming, but not so much with gtk > specifics. > > > Also, what keeps respawning the hildon-input-method? I can kill it > remotely and bask in the extra 6 megs of RAM for a few seconds before it > restarts without me ever trying to actually use the input method. > > in any case, neat device. I hope to modify my 'emap' program > http://repetae.net/john/computer/emap/ to provide support for the > fullscreen and menu buttons for arbitrary non-hildonized apps along with > keyboard support as I often use it as an X terminal to run remote > applications. emap also can figure out what program is currently running > so you can have a custom keyboard layout for each program. (xterm in > particular could benefit from a custom layout with nice big ^C and ^D > buttons :) ) > > any pointers would be appreciated. > > John > > // Tapani _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
