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Compositing in Maliit

Posted on January 25, 2012 by jpetersen

Introduction The development for Maliit, a cross-platform text input method framework for mobile devices, until 0.8 was mainly based on requirements for MeeGo Harmattan, the operating system on the Nokia N9. Harmattan applications are fullscreen. Animation of orientation changes is, … Continue reading →

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Maliit and Qt 5

Posted on December 7, 2011 by jpetersen

Qt 5 has a complete new interface for input methods. Instead of the old QInputContext (which is just a wrapper around the new system now) there is now QInputPanel and QPlatformInputContext (no documentation yet, see source), for the reasoning see … Continue reading →

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Maliit running under Wayland with Qt Lighthouse

Posted on September 19, 2011 by jpetersen

Currently Maliit depends heavily on X for core functionality (for example assigning the virtual keyboard to the application via transient for window hint) but also for some optional features like self compositing, which was implemented to dramatically improve the performance … Continue reading →

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Maliit packages for Fedora

Posted on May 29, 2011 by jpetersen

I used the Open Build Service (OBS) to build Maliit (Meego Input Method) packages for Fedora 15. To install the packages: Download the .repo file and save it as /etc/yum.repos.d/maliit.repo. Install the packages meego-inputmethodkeyboard and meego-inputmethodbridges with the Add/Remove Software application … Continue reading →

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Maliit running in GNOME 3

Posted on April 29, 2011 by jpetersen

Jon Nordby shows the Maliit (Meego Input Methods) virtual keyboard on a WeTab tablet running Fedora 15:

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Mountain View CA

Posted on July 24, 2010 by jpetersen
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Application Indicators

Posted on February 17, 2010 by jpetersen

At Openismus I am currently supporting Canonical to implement Application Indicators for Ubuntu Lucid. Application indicators are simple menus so it is easier and more consistent to interact with them than with the current notification area icons, where each icon … Continue reading →

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Fremantle Hildon Desktop

Posted on October 20, 2009 by jpetersen

The source code of the Hildon Desktop for Maemo Fremantle including the hildon-deskop, libhildondesktop, hildon-home and hildon-status-menu components, which I worked on for the last year at Openismus, moved to a public git repository at maemo.gitorious.org. It is now easier … Continue reading →

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First Openismus Barbecue 2009

Posted on March 31, 2009 by jpetersen

Friday there was the first Openismus barbecue of the season at the Berlin Openismus office. Thanks to Michael’s organization talent, the good mood of our guests and the weather being quite springlike, we had a nice evening. I am looking … Continue reading →

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Clutter Tutorial

Posted on June 19, 2008 by jpetersen

With the unstable developers release of Clutter 0.7.0 there were some API changes related to the new layout system. So I did another update of the examples and text in Openismus’ Clutter tutorial (also available as PDF). Coming from a … Continue reading →

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