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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
To my knowledge, nothing has been done with that "release", most likely because the "Hildon Input Method Framework" sux big donkey balls.

As a concept, Nokia's handwriting input method is fifteen to twenty years old, relying on the stupidest of all thinkable modularity models (with the possible exception of the Zaurus HWR, which actually requires the user to open the input box by hand!) and provided with an AI that is reminiscent of Red Dwarf's Holly in its lousier days.

In short, HWR on the Itablets sucks, and open sourcing it doesn't make it suddenly less suckier.
No, but it opens the door for putting something somewhat less sucky in its place. I think a graffiti-like system should work flawlessly*, if some open-source implementation and some sharp maemo developer collide properly.

* Flawlessly here denotes that it works like on a Palm, with no glitches caused by the collision of two stupidly thinkable modularity models , rather than that it constitutes a real HWR system, let alone a good one.)