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Upcoming events
- 24.05.2013 - "Wayland input methods" talk @ GNOME.Asia Summit
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework for mobile and embedded text input, including a virtual keyboard. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via input context plugins.
Maliit is an open source framework (LGPL 2) with open source plugins (BSD). There are also proprietary plugins. It runs on most GNU/Linux distributions.
See some Screenshots, photos and videos, read reviews and Contact us.
Maliit's Ohloh.net page shows our development history.
Goals
Input method framework
This includes support for traditional input methods such as hardware and virtual keyboards. More exotic input methods should also be possible, such as handwriting recognition and voice input, and special purpose input methods such as date/time pickers, tag clouds, etc.
Core input methods
The default set of input methods should demonstrate the core capabilities of the framework and provide a good user experience that device manufacturers and integrators can use easily.
Third-party developers
It should be easy to customize existing input methods or develop powerful new input methods, whether for profit, research or fun.
Community
We welcome and encourage employees from different companies, freelancers, members of academia, hackers and volunteers.
Collaboration hub
Become a central collaboration hub for everything regarding mobile text input.
News
- 01.03.2013: Major improvements to Maliit Keyboard committed to maliit-plugins.
- 02.02.2013 - Talk about Wayland Input Methods @ FOSDEM 2013 (slides)
- 21th June - 23th June: Qt Contributor Summit 2012 - Possible ad-hoc session about Wayland input method system.
- 30th June - 6th July: aKademy 2012 - "Wayland: Choosing a better input method architecture".
- 08.05.2012 - Mobile text input presentation at Tizen Developer Conference 2012. (slides|audio)
- 23.03.2012 - Maliit on Windows; basic build working: [1]
- 02.03.2012 - Remote text input demonstrated: See the video.
- 01.03.2012 - "Time to die" series started off with 0.90.0 release. Announcement.
- 08.02.2012 - Maliit presentations at FOSDEM 2012. (1, 2)
- 13.12.2011 - New Maliit reference plugin available. Announcement
- 22.11.2011 - Maliit got its own bugtracker! Announcement
- 22.11.2011 - "Into the wild" series started off with 0.81.0 release
- 09.11.2011 - Moved project mailing list and IRC channel to Maliit infrastructure. Announcement
- 17.10.2011 - Mobile.no says MesInput, the Maliit custom keyboard provider, is one of 10 must-have N9 apps! More info
- 15.10.2011 - Nokia N9 available to the public. First known device shipped with Maliit input methods. Reviews
- 12.08.2011 - Desktop Summit Berlin BoF sessions.Input Methods and Qt5 ,Input Methods and Wayland
- 12.07.2011 - Moved project to new website: maliit.org
- 24.06.2011 - MeeGo Freeday presentation/workshop in Berlin. Announcement (in german), Slides, Video
- 21.06.2011 - Nokia's N9 announced, with input methods powered by Maliit Video
- 20.06.2011 - First release (Maliit 0.80) as an independent project. Announcement
- 17.06.2011 - Session at Qt Collaborator Summit 2011. Session summary
- 24.05.2011 - Session at MeeGo Spring Conference 2011. Info, Recording
- 08.04.2011 - MeeGo Keyboard is relicensed with BSD license: Announcement
- 29.03.2011 - Held first offical IRC meeting: How can we simplify development and maintenance of input contexts?]
- 04.03.2011 - API/ABI break in 0.20.0: meego-im-framework is removing dependency to libmeegotouch from its API
- 23.02.2011 - Packages available for Ubuntu Lucid/Maverick to ease development. Blogpost, documentation
- 17.02.2011 - Claudio Saavedra started on MeeGo+Gtk integration work, focusing on input methods. Blogpost
- 13.02.2011 - MeeGo Tablet UX demoed at Mobile World Conference, with Swype keyboard. Pictures
- 01.02.2011 - API/ABI break in 0.19.41: meegoimframework interfaces related to orientation change will be changed
- 15.11.2010 - Architect and Lead Developer of Maliit give talk at MeeGo Conference. Info, Recording
- 15.11.2010 - Linpus shows off MeeGo based slate at MeeGo Conference, with keyboard based on Maliit.
- 30.06.2010 - MeeGo Handset UX Day 1 release, first public release of MeeGo Input Methods. Announcement