Maliit


Maliit is an input method framework for computers with particular focus on implementing virtual keyboards. Designed mostly for touchscreen devices, Maliit allows the inputting of text without the presence of a physical keyboard. More advanced features such as word correction and prediction are also available.
Originating as part of MeeGo, Maliit is free software licensed under LGPL. Maliit was deployed as a standard component of Nokia N9, KDE Plasma Active, LuneOS, OLPC devices, and Ubuntu Touch.

History

Maliit was originally developed as part of MeeGo by Nokia who eventually shipped it as part of MeeGo Handset “Day 1” software platform.
After the MeeGo project ended, Maliit was transferred into an independent project by free software consulting firm Openismus. The first formally independent release was 0.80.0 on.
Maliit 0.99, released on, switched from Qt 4 to Qt 5.

Features

Among Maliit’s features are a plugin-based architecture, word correction and prediction, multitouch, and context sensitive layouts.
When running on Linux kernel, handling of the input hardware relies on evdev. Maliit supports X11 as well as Wayland.