Openmoko keyboard mockup

[Vasili Sviridov]

Good point about T9 kimaidou, but as far as I know the T9 itself is a 
patented technology, and would not be able to appear on Moko officially...

kimaidou wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am glad people (re-)start to talk about keyboards.
>
> 2 points:
>
> * Another great improvement compared to the iphone, illume, etc. ones, 
> would be to have a transparent keyboard, using the whole screen, but 
> allowing to see through it. Of course we need the transparency % to be 
> changed by the user. What about the technical feasibility of that ? 
> Would it be possible ? I thing for example about the Qwo keyboard ( 
> http://www.opkg.org/package_84.html ) which would be very finger 
> friendly in full screen (like the other one)
>
> * I don't get how the dictionnary (illume and qtopia) actually helps 
> to write some word. In mobile phones, on which you have only 9 numbers 
> to type, so 3 letters by number, the "T9" dictionnary was really 
> helpfull, because it showed a list of words possible with the 
> combination of the letters entered. I could actually write sms faster 
> with only 9 keys than now with a complete qwerty keyboard because the 
> buttons were much bigger and I had only 9 button to search among. Here 
> with the FR, the "eyes and brain" must locate the desired letter among 
> much more and much smaller keys. And furthermore, I don't see the 
> point with the dictionnary. The dictionnary only shows words with the 
> same number of letters as the ones entered. So it does not provide a 
> way to easily choose a word (for example, when I type "for" it must 
> show "for", "forest", force", etc., but  with the illume keyboard it 
> only shows "for" and other useless words like :"big", "fit", die", 
> but", etc.--> not very related to "for" ) People using OpenOffice 
> Writer with the autocompletion activated will understand what I am 
> trying to explain with my limited english skills..
>
> My 2 cents :) , of course in a constructive way
>
> Kimaidou
>
> 2009/1/6 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster at rasterman.com 
> <mailto:raster at rasterman.com>>
>
>     On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:08:41 +0530 "Shashank Bharadwaj"
>     <shanka.mns at gmail.com <mailto:shanka.mns at gmail.com>>
>     babbled:
>
>     > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <
>     > raster at rasterman.com <mailto:raster at rasterman.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:46:15 +0000 Jan Henkins
>     <jan at henkins.za.net <mailto:jan at henkins.za.net>>
>     > > babbled:
>     > >
>     > > > Hello there,
>     > > >
>     > > > Pascal d'Hermilly wrote:
>     > > > > With 2008.12 release, a well working finger-friendly
>     keyboard is the
>     > > > > most critical missing feature for me.
>     > > > > I've made a mockup of a keyboard that I think would make
>     things a lot
>     > > > > easier to type.
>     > > > > http://dhermilly.dk/pascal/openmoko/keyboard%20mockup.png
>     > >
>     >
>     > I think, the current Raster's Keyboard great for potrait mode.
>     For landscape
>     > mode(i.e holding neo sideways) however, the keyboard does not
>     utilize the
>     > extra space. What we need is, imho, a keyboard that would
>     increase in size
>     > to take up the extra space in this landscape mode. That way
>     we'll be able to
>     > type even faster. If we could add that fuctionality to raster's
>     keyboard,
>     > then it'd be just great.
>
>     that's a matter of just fixing the code to handle resizing
>     appropriately.
>
>     --
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>     --------------
>     The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    raster at rasterman.com
>     <mailto:raster at rasterman.com>
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