Postings tagged with Sales Pitch
Real users, real feedback
We released Maliit 0.80.7 on Friday. Over these last days, I am doubly proud about our project. Not only did the N9's virtual keyboard get astonishing reviews across the board, but what's even better: We managed to keep this software open-source. In our communities, there will always be those who focus too much on technical aspects. I remember the technical struggles we had even within MeeGo! But now we get feedback from real users who couldn't care less about what Qt or MeeGo Touch is, and to be honest, that's a refreshing change.
Being here at Qt's Developer Days 2011, it feels great to get such feedback directly, from first-time users of the Nokia N9. Especially the fine haptic feedback and the keyboard's accuracy gets noticed.
I also had the possibility to see a Japanese input method — running on the N9 and powered by Maliit. Seeing how well this plugin already integrates with the platform, I feel that our architecture yet again has been justified. I am looking forward to see more Maliit plugins, and more platforms using Maliit!
Decent examples, at last!
Jon spent a lot of time in the last weeks improving our documentation for Maliit. However, while documentation is good (and necessary), Jon thinks that examples are better. I can only agree with that.
I am planning to use Jon's example material for an input method workshop at one of the upcoming MeeGo Freedays (German only) here in Berlin, just to see how useful it is for newcomers.
Maliit starts to feel more and more like a real open-source project, and I am proud of that. Just compare our wiki from end of February with the current, information-packed version, or take a look at the steady traffic on our own mailing list (started only in March this year). Or perhaps just try googling it!
I am really happy to eventually see real contributions and input method plugins from others, which makes me think that we are on a good way.
But this is still only the beginning, and more interesting news will follow soon.
Is MeeGo Keyboard conquering GNOME3?
You'd probably like me more if I had spend my time testing the upcoming release of MeeGo Tablet UX on this shiny new WeTab (I ♥ Openismus), but Jon couldn't resist to test-drive GNOME3 first. Well, and since we like our virtual keyboard so much, we just had to make it work of course.
Jon also wrote about the features shown in the video.
