[Gpephone-devel] Input method

[YU Yijun RD-ILAB-PEK]

Hi, Nils,

Many thanks for the information. We will have a close study on it at our earliest convenience. In principle, we will ready to adopt the promising open source technology.

Regards
Yu Yijun

>-----Original Message-----
>From: gpephone-devel-bounces at linuxtogo.org
>[mailto:gpephone-devel-bounces at linuxtogo.org] On Behalf Of Nils Faerber
>Sent: 2007年11月7日 17:37
>To: gpephone-devel at linuxtogo.org
>Subject: [Gpephone-devel] Input method
>
>Hi all!
>I would like to propose again to have a more close look at the
>maemo/hildon input method handling that has been released as open source
>recently.
>Reason for this is that twofold...
>
>First of all I assume that Nokia will push their input framework upwards
>quite quickly. It can be expected to become part of GTK+/Gnome in the
>next future, as it has already happened with the Hildon UI. Reusing this
>code would reduce effort for us, we would save maintenance effort.
>
>Second, the Maemo input framework is now used in customer devices for
>more almost three years. I think it can be called "mature" and stable.
>In contrast to our input method which still suffers from some
>problems,e.g. when hiding windows and not destroying the windows (the
>input method stays open) and some input widgets do not toggle the input
>method (multi-line text input widget is one).
>
>Does someone reading this feels like commenting on this topic?
>I would be happy to see some discussion about this ;)
>
>Of course abandonning a existing solution hurts but we only have a
>limited amount of effort to spend and I think we should concentrate on
>more important tasks than the already elsewhere solved ones, if possible.
>
>Cheers
>  nils faerber
>
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