Tag Archives: Qt

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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