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Postings in February 2011

MeeGo Input Methods for your desktop

Taken from http://wiki.meego.com/File:Text-input-2a.png I've been working on the MeeGo Input Methods project (codename "Maliit") for nearly a year now. The project provides a pluggable framework for input methods. It comes with a reference plug-in for a multi-touch-capable virtual keyboard.

It had bothered me that, even though our source code was available at gitorious.org, there were nearly no ...

Automatic suspend when closing the lid

There is this big discussion about automatic suspend when closing lid as only user visible option going on. Let me share a little tale about the implications of that feature:

A long, long time ago... A young student just bought his first notebook few weeks ago and this was a big thing as even such entry class notebooks were really expensive those days. After long ...