Robert:

I am a long-time user of FITALY, and just purchased an N800, so your timing is great. I am already lamenting the absence of my beloved FITALY layout.

I see the instructions for building a custom Hildon Input Method Plugin, and I see the instructions for building a VKB file, but I don't see how the two relate. Were you able to implement the FITALY keyboard merely by creating a new VKB file, or did you have to write a plugin?

I am a software developer, so I'm willing to work it out on my own, but a little extra nudge would help me out. If you were willing to send me the VKB files, that would also save me some time. I have enabled e-mail sending for my account.

I notice that the VKB specification has allowances for "sliding" buttons. Did you use the sliding attribute to provide for the FITALY capitalization/punctuation functions? If not, I would be glad to augment the file you created, and then send you back the result.

Tim Crews