[Gpephone-devel] PTIM input method

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

YE NAN RD-ILAB-PEK schrieb:
> We have just upload our latest updated ptim modules to SVN repository. These
> modules include: 1) PTIM imanager 2) PTIM imhelper (A virtual keyboard which
> provides users a direct input with touch screen) 3) PTIM imengine (A dummy
> engine without any futher process)

very nice, I'm just about to try them on a real device.

> Currently, users can only input latin characters and punctuations through
> virtual keyboard because of a lack of open source input engine. For next
> step, we are investegating an open source input engine which can provide more
> powerful input feature(such as more language inputs, prediction inputs, user
> defined word dictionaries etc.) and must be suitable to run in embedded
> devices. We have just selected two candicates: 1) SCIM engines 2) Fcitx
> 
> Do you know any other open source engines that would be fine to porting to
> phone devices or have you some advices?

There seem to be quite some modules for SCIM and even FCITX is covered by it.
Its definitely something to take a close look at because it has a good
integration with GTK already.

Greetings

Florian

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