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Originally Posted by SD69
Sorry, I did not mean to circumvent any decisions of the UI design team of Fremantle, though a stylus keyboard as a Community addon, would be a welcome addition.
Let me be clear. We are not asking that these components of Diablo are opened up so that they can be used in Fremantle. If Nokia wanted the stylus keyboard (or any other component) to be in Fremantle, it would be in Fremantle already and we are not trying to circumvent that decision. Opening up will allow us to troubleshoot and support Diablo, extending the useful life of N8x0 tablets and Diablo to the community.
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http://wiki.maemo.org/Diablo_Community_Project
Also since extended support for N8x0 devices, is mostly going to be provided by Mer, opening the source of the stylus keyboard, would be a tremendous boost to the usefulness of the devices, especially the N800.
It would also be useful even in Diablo itself, to add more features to it, for example; tweaking the word completion, or dictionaries, or adding a whole bunch of other useful plugins.
Also then instead of making the Arabic keyboard a whole other input method, if we had the source then those languages might be able to be added directly into the original one.
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2009-10-07
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Originally Posted by iKneaDough
No problem, all's good.
Sorry, I did not mean to circumvent any decisions of the UI design team of Fremantle, though a stylus keyboard as a Community addon, would be a welcome addition.
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2009-10-13
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Back to the original topic, I've been having a hard time making a request. Reasons:
1. I'm not a Linux developer and will have very limited ability to do anything myself.
2. It's hard to figure out what functionality is associated with closed source packages. Thanks, lma for that link, but I'll still make mistakes.
3. These FiF bugs that bother me... some of them could be fixed by simply using third-party apps instead. I don't have any special affinity to the built-in apps EXCEPT that they automatically tie together. File Manager launches media player not (insert name of third party program). Would it be more productive to allow users to specify which default program is launched (assuming this is even possible) for a specific file type and just ditch the closed-source apps? Would that kill off a whole slew of problems?
1. I'm not a Linux developer and will have very limited ability to do anything myself.
2. It's hard to figure out what functionality is associated with closed source packages. Thanks, lma for that link, but I'll still make mistakes.
3. These FiF bugs that bother me... some of them could be fixed by simply using third-party apps instead. I don't have any special affinity to the built-in apps EXCEPT that they automatically tie together. File Manager launches media player not (insert name of third party program). Would it be more productive to allow users to specify which default program is launched (assuming this is even possible) for a specific file type and just ditch the closed-source apps? Would that kill off a whole slew of problems?
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Is there a list of what things are and aren't opened up from Diablo? (and if there's a schedule to open up more of them once Freemantle and the N900 are released)
Not just software, but also look&feel type stuff (icons and logos from the basic UI themes, etc.)?
Not just software, but also look&feel type stuff (icons and logos from the basic UI themes, etc.)?
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2009-10-14
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Originally Posted by johnkzin
Are you talking about something other than this?
Is there a list of what things are and aren't opened up from Diablo? (and if there's a schedule to open up more of them once Freemantle and the N900 are released)
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Originally Posted by buurmas
Well, the list you linked to seems incomplete, as it doesn't contain the stylus keyboard (unless it's under some name I can't decode like osso-libXXX). And that omission makes me think the list may be even more incomplete.
Are you talking about something other than this?
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2009-10-14
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i would agree that the keyboard seems to be missing from said list...
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2009-10-14
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Apparently nobody cared if it was open source as long as it was there, it was that good :-)
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