Thanks! I googled this: http://www.penpower.net/nokia/n900/Install.htm

After googletranslating and spending a while trying to understand the complicated installation guide, I found out the packages are actually in extras-devel!

mscim-n900-ppinputmethod
n900-locales-ppchinese (not sure what this one is for, its a dependecy of the above)

So I installed them and got 4 new methods for my mscim:
Chinese Pad
PINYIN Pad
Writing Pad
PINYIN Pad

The Chinese Pad is a virtual keyboard containing the strokes for chinese characters. I don't know how to use it though.

The first PINYIN Pad looks like regular mscim pinyin input (there may be some differences but I don't use googlepinyin much so I don't know).

The Writing Pad (which is what I suppose I'm interested in) and the second PINYIN Pad, however, just give me an error message: "Invalid IMEI. please visit http://www.penpower.net/nokia/n900". What the hell?? Apparently, this input method is limited to devices sold in Hong Kong?

What is this crap, Nokia?

Lets have a look at the package: http://maemo.org/packages/package_in....0-2010042905/

Oh, its in the free repository, so the sources are available?? Well, after having a look inside the source tarball, I found only the binaries. I'm not too knowledgeable about the packaging system, but are the packages in free repo not supposed to be opensource?

Huh?