Thanks for the summary, inean. Getting GTK+ support "out-of-the-box" is currently ongoing:

https://gitorious.org/maliit/maliit-...ge_requests/77

(that's a huge patch, think twice before clicking!)

But that's only the patch, someone needs to figure out how Maliit can be properly installed onto Fremantle so that the GTK_IM_MODULE is set to meego-im (for QT_IM_MODULE, it should be Maliit) and that maliit-server process is running.