Decided to throw this one in with the challenges as it's quite useful if it works properly - and me and qwerty12 has done some work on it - thanks to n3x for the idea.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...5&postcount=13 - getting hildon-input-method to work in Deblet.

A very bad screenshot - it might work better in matchbox - but this is activated by touching the text field as on Maemo, with no hildon environment running.



http://bsd.tspre.org/~stskeeps/nit-d...hod-framework/ for the ported packages from Ubuntu Mobile

Files edited to get this to work:

stskeeps@Nokia-N800-51-3:/etc/gtk-2.0$ cat gtk.immodules
# GTK+ Input Method Modules file
# Automatically generated file, do not edit
# Created by gtk-query-immodules-2.0 from gtk+-2.12.11
#
# ModulesPath = /root/.gtk-2.0/2.10.0/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/immodules:/root/.gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules:/root/.gtk-2.0/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/immodules:/root/.gtk-2.0/immodules:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/immodules:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/immodules:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/immodules
#
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/hildon-im-module.so"
"hildon-input-method" "Hildon Input Method" "hildon-input-method-framework" "/usr/share/locale" "*"

--EOF

Make hildon-input-method run in the background when GTK has started.

$ hildon-im-recache

$ gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/inputmethod/input_method_plugin -t string himExample_vkb

So, I guess the challenge is to make this into something useful so we don't have to use MB for atleast GTK applications. Or QT (there's a IM plugin for that too). And I have an idea for how to make H-I-M work for normal X applications too.

https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile is where all packages are fetchable from using bzr - it's a matter of dpkg-buildpackage them and getting build dependancies. But the -example one is probably the most interesting to hack to work in normal WMs.

http://live.gnome.org/Hildon/HildonInputMethod/Theme is also interesting.