I have taken the plunge and attempted to bundle xword at the maemo garage into a .deb using PyPackager. I have an N800 with OS2008, so I have no idea if this will work for anybody else. I apologize in advance to other tablets with other O/S versions, and I also apologize to the xword garage project maintainer if he had plans to release xword at a later date. I don't mean to step on any toes!

Anyway, you will need python2.5 and python2.5-gtk2, both of which are available from the Maemo Extras repository. Again, I didn't do a lot of baseline testing since I really just wanted to get this working for me. Hopefully others will be able to download the attached .deb and install it.

Ultimately, you can just download the files from the subversion repository and run it that way. All I did was move files to their correct location and created a program icon. For the N800, I also installed xkbd and modified "/usr/share/xkbd/en_GB.qwerty.xkbd" as suggested by Addison (i.e. change all 26 lowercase letters to uppercase, as in "default_ks d" -> "default_ks D").

UPDATE 1.0.2: Made minor updates to program and added a special xkbd layout (see post below).

UPDATE 1.0.3: Added Preferences Menu option to show/hide xkbd (rather than launch xkbd from a shell script).

UPDATE 1.0.4: Replaced xkbd with built-in keyboard "toolbar", plus several bug fixes. New .deb HERE! (I'm leaving v1.0.3 here in case you prefer to use xkbd.)

UPDATE 1.0.5: Added new option for minimum box size. The .deb files can now be downloaded from the garage file respository. Also, see the spiffy new official home page.