Build SCIM on Maemo5

maemocjk project has not been updated for a long time. there’s a scim for maemo sub-project in it, which i think is the most important part of maemocjk. i’ve tried to build it on maemo5 sdk beta1 and beta2, before. it would be compiled and built successfully on all of these sdk versions. but scim could not be actived when i click into an editable text area. i’m not sure if it’s just the sdk bug.

anyway, when i try to build scim on maemo official sdk today, it works now, without any modification of the code. like before sdks, chinese character cannot be shown because the build-in font in the sdk doesn’t support cjk. i install droid font from maemo extra devel repository. as you can see, it works. though it’s not very good to use yet. it’s a good beginning, isn’t it?

there’re still lots of things need to do:

1. the scim-setup application is not listed in the application panel
2. scim cannot be actived in the input field of web pages. in other words, it doesn’t work in the browser.
3. the front-end ui of scim is not working well. as you can see in the screen-shot, the character cannot displayed well in the scim drop down list. it’s just one of the easiest bug to fix. i guess just need to use correct font. other bugs like, the float window cannot be shown. i disabled it in scim-setup. if the float window is set to be shown, the whole scim cannot work. when i click into an input field, then scim actives, and try to show its float window. the task switcher of maemo system will treat the float window as a new task window, and switch to that one.

i will try to keep working on that..