Postings in November 2011
Into the Wild
We kicked off the new 0.81 release series together with a nice announcement: We have our own bugtracker now!
This means that Maliit has a near complete project infrastructure, all available under *.maliit.org, and all that thanks to Karsten, the always professional and very experienced hostmaster here at Openismus.
There is one more thing that we need (as demonstrated by me when I made my first broken release), and that's a ...
Qt Quick best practices: Using Components
The next article in the series about Qt Quick best practices has been published (but don't miss out the other one about property bindings). This time, I talked about Components, and how they can help to keep your QML code clean and maintainable. The team behind the N9 Developer blog has been a great help to me, especially Ville Lavonious ...
Miniature 0.5 'London 1851' released
From the release notes: "Miniature now supports different languages thanks to a determined community of translators. Thank you for your effort! This is why we are dedicating this release to the first international chess tournament, celebrated in London on 1851.
Miniature 0.5 is being released for MeeGo Harmattan (Nokia N9 & N950) and Maemo (Nokia N900). Thanks to everybody involved in the initial Maemo attempts and the experimental version that was made ...
Using MeeGo Keyboard from git on your Nokia N9
Usually AEGIS, the N9's security framework, protects system packages from being replaced. As such, files belonging to a system package can't be overwritten. And that's definitely a good thing, because otherwise each download from OVI store would put the user at a considerable risk.
Maliit is such a system package, but its flexible architecture allows for a creative way to replace the MeeGo Keyboard with a more recent version. This can be
useful if you want to testdrive new features and to … nah whom am ...
Best practices in using Qt Quick
I am writing a series about best practices in using Qt Quick. It will be published on the official N9 Developer blog. The introduction and first article have already appeared. Your feedback on that series is very much welcomed.
Better GTK+ support in Maliit
So far, using Maliit's virtual keyboard in GTK+ applications required fetching and compiling a GTK+ input method brigde yourself. Not any more. With the latest release, GTK+ applications should just work out of the box, thanks to Jon's integration efforts. Right at the same time, Łukasz was looking into using Maliit together with GTK+ applications on his Ubuntu desktop. He ...
Devhelp books in QtCreator
Had a few problems focusing on my work today, so I came up with this little hack: A script converting devhelp books into Qt help collections.
Together with QtCreator's autotools plugin it should help turning QtCreator into a proper GNOME IDE.
Next steps: Let QtCreator index devhelp books automatically. Also on my wishlish: A code ...
Better key override support for Maliit
Krzesimir Nowak joined Openismus in the beginning of August this year. Not only is he a very talented developer (or, as I once said, the first one to actually fill the gap Daniel left), but he's also fun to work with.
Just before I went on my vacations ...
