[SHR-U] Keyboard layouts for extremely fat fingers

Adolph J. Vogel ajvogel at tuks.co.za
Sat Oct 10 14:13:43 CEST 2009


On Saturday 10 October 2009 13:56:19 Michael Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:37:53 +0200
>
> "Adolph J. Vogel" <ajvogel at tuks.co.za> wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 October 2009 13:27:55 Michael Smith wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:58:22 +0200
> > >
> > > "Adolph J. Vogel" <ajvogel at tuks.co.za> wrote:
> > > > I dont know much about the illume keyboard, but do the keys have to
> > > > be square?
> > >
> > > No. They just have to be rectangular. Each key has x,y,w,h specified in
> > > the kbd file. I had no trouble with these formats. The kbd files are
> > > easy to work with.
> > >
> > :( Rectangular, wont work for what I hand in mind.
>
> Were you thinking about meshed triangular keys? Maybe you should ask the
> Enlightenment people about that. I have just adapted the existing layouts
> using information on the wiki page. I am sure there are some tricks there
> which I don't know about.

It doesn`t have to be triangular, but some shape that could be meshed would 
work. Circular probably best. But alas...

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Adolph J. Vogel         BEng(Hons)






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