Replacing ASU/Qtopia keyboard with matchbox keyboard?

[Ken Restivo]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:04:11PM +0200, nick loeve wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:17 PM, thomasg <thomas at gstaedtner.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've installed the matchbox keyboard on my ASU installation, and I love
> >> it.
> >>
> >> matchbox-keyboard-im - 0.0+svnr1910-r10 -
> >> matchbox-keyboard-inputmethod - 0.0+svnr1910-r10 -
> >> qtopia-phone-x11-libinputmatch -
> >> 4.3.2+git3+876ed02211e50547856491ad54a75299b62efe4c-r31 -
> >>
> >> Only problem is, how can I get the apps to use it as an input method
> >> instead of its own built-in QWERTY keyboard?
> >>
> >> Actually clicking on the keyboard's icon in the launcher is a disaster; it
> >> gives me three instances of the keyboard and fills up the screen so much
> >> that there's no way to open any other app, the only solution is to reboot
> >> the phone.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> -ken
> >
> > I think the matchbox keyboard only works in matchbox without changes.
> 
> You might wanna checkout the work the guys at INdT are doing for the
> mamona distro in regards to input methods and matchbox-keyboard
> 
> http://dev.openbossa.org/mamona/gitweb
> http://dev.openbossa.org/mamona/gitweb?p=mamona.git;a=commit;h=78e9f72d21842297e29c2b627fed9e1f3e495a0d
> 

Another distro?! *sigh* The bane of Open Source-- everyone working on his or her own sandbox instead of together on getting one distro solid and complete.

Thanks. I didn't see this one listed in the distros Wiki page. Should I add it?

-ken