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Image preview support for OpenRaster in Qt working
While learning Qt here at Openismus I’ve written a basic, working plug-in for Qt that adds support for the OpenRaster file format*. Here is my Qt-based test application demoing this functionality by...
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glom-postgresql-setup
Glom is an application that lets you design database systems, including user interface. It can be run as an ordinary application, and will set up and run a the database server for you automatically....
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Introducing; Maliit on-screen keyboard in Gnome 3
Maliit (also known as Meego Input Methods) has the following overall goal: “to be the input method project for MeeGo and other GNU/Linux-based embedded/mobile platforms”. This initial video shows...
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Example plugins for Maliit available
In Maliit input methods are implemented as plugins. This flexibility is important because it allows the same framework to provide very different text input methods, without us having to implement them...
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GTK+ application support integrated into Maliit mainline
GTK+ application support for Maliit input methods has existed for a long time, but up until now it has lived in separate repositories. This has been inconvenient for users and for developers, and was...
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The Maliit buildbot
After having set up the typical things open source projects needs like a website/wiki, mailing-list and bug-tracker, Maliit now also has something not so common: a build-bot. As Maliit consists of...
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Gitorious Merge Request Monitor
In Maliit, all changes have to be reviewed by two people in order to be merged to mainline. This helps us catch issues early and keep code quality high. Since the code is hosted on Gitorious, we use...
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Maliit and third party input method plugins (video)
Maliit has an architecture where input methods are implemented as plug-ins. This enables a multitude of different input methods to exist and be used in the same way by applications. Maliit comes with a...
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Maliit on Windows: Basic build working
Enabling third-party developers of input methods is one of the primary goals in the Maliit project. In an attempt to improve this story I spent some time on getting Maliit to work on Windows. Since we...
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Application-hosted and compositor-hosted Maliit
The standard way of deploying Maliit is to have a single maliit-server instance (per user session), hosting the actual input method (virtual keyboard, handwriting). Applications then communicate with...
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