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.
>-------- Оригинално писмо --------
>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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