Is there some way to turn the predictive dictionary off?

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 30 03:09:03 CEST 2008


On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:12:08 +0100 Al Johnson
> <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> babbled:
>
> ok. now in illume svn there is code to confiugre what keyboard you want
> (illume's, none at all (which means if qpe provides one that will be used),
> or some other one. other keyboards must install a .desktop file with a
> category of "Keyboard" in the categories list).
>
> anyway... in addition there is code to talk to hal and query for kbd
> devices and listen to hal device adds/dels, and i have a primitive glob
> matcher that allows a list of globs (currently hard-coded - probably will
> move to a file) that are globs for identifying "existing keyboards to
> ignore" when figuring out of a "real keyboard" has been plugged in and thus
> needs the virtual kbd to be disabled. if a real kbd is plugged in i added
> disable code to the
> virtual keyboard handler... that SHOULD work. completely untested. it
> compiles.. it runs and doesn't segv... i have no "real" keyboatd to play
> with right now.

Sounds good. I'll have to get dual boot going before testing. Will this get 
into a nightly build or will I need to build it myself?

> > On Friday 25 July 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > > >   What about checking hal at startup (then subsequently monitoring
> > > > hal events) to see if a device with "input.keyboard" in its
> > > > "info.capabilities" list exists or is added/removed?
> > > >
> > > >   I'm planning on getting a USB keyboard (a frogpad) to use with my
> > > > Freerunner, so might be willing to have a play around with getting
> > > > this sort of thing to work (time permitting).
> > >
> > > i guess hal could be he go... need to check. not sure what all the
> > > keyboards will turn up as... or if there is aleady one faked... not
> > > sure. need to look into it... when i get to it :)
> >
> > Without keyboard:
> > root at om-gta02:~# hal-find-by-capability --capability input.keyboard
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_s3c2440_i2c_logicaldev_input
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_neo1973_button_0_logicaldev_input
> >
> > After connecting the bluetooth keyboard (hidd --search) I get:
> > root at om-gta02:~# hal-find-by-capability --capability input.keyboard
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_a12_1_noserial_if0_bluetooth_hci_
> >bluetooth_hci_logicaldev_input
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_s3c2440_i2c_logicaldev_input
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_neo1973_button_0_logicaldev_input
> >
> > After disconnecting bt kbd (hidd --killall) it reverts to the first
> > result.
> >
> > I haven't made a USB adaptor for host mode yet so no USB keyboard
> > results.
> >
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