ASU keyboards, again

Jelle De Loecker skerit at kipdola.com
Tue Aug 26 16:49:35 CEST 2008


Jus tot egt things straight: how many keyboards are there?

We have the qpe one, we have this terminal one (with the bevels and 
such) but wasn't there another one, a full keyboard with no fancy graphics?

/Met vriendelijke groeten,/

*Jelle De Loecker*
Kipdola Studios - Tomberg


David Samblas schreef:
> I have followed th Raster indications to install spanish dictionary and
> it works :)
>
> Note to Ubuntu/Debian users, the compatible dictionaries are installed
> on /usr/share/dict/
> if you dont find your lenguage there do
>
> #apt-cache search wordlist|grep ^w|sort
>
> to show avaiable lenguages
>
> change wspanish for your lenguage 
>
> #apt-get install wspanish
>
> and 
>
> then 
> # scp /usr/share/dict/spanish
> root at 192.168.0.202:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts/spanish.dic
>
> Avoid the shorting part because this dictionaries are already shorted
> and depending on the locales you will only messit 
>
> El mar, 26-08-2008 a las 22:40 +1000, Carsten Haitzler escribió:
>   
>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:35:53 +0200 julien cubizolles <j.cubizolles at free.fr>
>> babbled:
>>
>>     
>>> I've installed raster's image, mainly to get its great keyboard, and I
>>> love being able to switch modes/adding my own (french keyboard).
>>>       
>> great! see below about adding a french dictionary :)
>>
>>     
>>> However I have some isssues.
>>>
>>> 1 : sometimes, an application calls a keyboard and I get stuck with the
>>> old keyboard. Is there a way to prevent that from opening so that no
>>> matter what I always get raster's one ?
>>>       
>> this is a matter of qpe still making its keyboard and qpe and illume clashing.
>> it manages to make sure no big mess happens, but it means it's a luck of the
>> draw (first in, first served) as to which keyboard gets displayed. :( can't
>> turn qpe's keyboard off currently.
>>
>>     
>>> 2 : I don't understand how "predicive" those two keyboards are. For me
>>> predictive would mean suggesting the n+1 (or n+p) character when I have
>>> pressed n keys. At the moment the only thing it does is suggesting
>>> several combination of n keys, to correct some typos I would have made.
>>> It's very annoying since the word I correctly typed isn't necessarily
>>> displayed among those suggestions. Is that how a "predictive" is
>>> supposed to work or am I missing something here ?
>>>       
>> with illume's keyboard (my one) in the latest illume's you get a dictionary. it
>> should be possible to create a french dictionary - take /usr/share/dict/words
>> from your desktop (i assume you have a french one) and:
>>
>> sort -f words > French.dic
>> scp French.dic 192.168.0.202:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts/
>>
>> (assuming your FR is plugged in). then it will use french words to predict - if
>> you select the French dictionary. :)
>>
>> but as such it will display the most likely matches in the dictionary based on
>> how far the "typo" is from the word (the closest wins). it doesn't try and
>> predict at all - only "fix" so you have to type all the letters - it just makes
>> up for typos and a "fat finger" on a "small screen". press top-left dictionary
>> icon to select dictionaries when no word is being composed (select this to list
>> ALL matches - EXACTLY what you typed will be the first thing in the list always
>> - if you select it it gets added to your personal dictionary so it can match
>> and fix your typos later).
>>
>>     
>>> Btw Is there a way to scroll through the suggestions of the predictive
>>> keyboard ?
>>>       
>> illume's one? left dict icon above the keys of the keyboard - vertical list of
>> them. just drag it up and down - select the one you want. :)
>>
>>     
>
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