OK, I have to admit I still don't understand the various layers of software within the 770

So when I thought about things like "how to make use of X forwarding" and "could we use a non-GTK environment like twm+Athena-based Applikations to save memory and speed up things for power users" etc., I suddenly stopped and reminded myself: "hey, there's probably no keyboard then!"

At least, thats what I think now: The keyboard shows when a certain subset of the widget set receives the focus. It does not show when a remote applications draws its UI on the 770 via X-forwarding. And it would not show for local applications that use an unsupported widget set.

Is this right in principle? Does the virtual keyboard depend on high-level components rather than living somewhere in the bowels of X?

If so, could there possibly be a way to change this? You know, like make the keyboard a part of X that works with whatever expects input on that screen. (It should probably even works when there's no input field at all.) There should be an additional way to activate it whenever the user wnats to - like keeping the stylus at the lower right corner for more than 3 second or whatever.

The concept would be interesting because such an X-level virtual keyboard could, of course, be of use outside the world of maemo as well.