Input Method - Missing Buttongrip

[openmokolist.50.minime at xoxy.net]

Hi there,

here we go, first mailinglist post :)



It has been often argued that it will not be easy to use a touchpad-only 
phone if one does not see the displayed keyboard because of the lack 
hard-buttons you can actually feel and touch. Textmessaging therefore 
needs complete focus on the phone's display and you can't write or 
adjust anything on your phone without looking at it.

Idea: Why not have a one-finger-fix and four(or three)-fingers-write 
input? With all five or four fingers on the phone's display, one(maybe 
your little finger or thumb) defines a fixpoint on the display. The 
other fingers now can be put on certain points at relative locations to 
the fixpointing finger(several input method ideas can be implemented 
from here on).
This way one would not be dependent on absolute positions of a displayed 
keyboard one would not be able to feel, but one would be able to create 
those points by pointing a finger there.

I acknowledge that there would be several implementations problems 
coming up, like how to change between a fixed-finger-input-method and a 
fixed displayed keyboard and menus.


minime/tim