<div dir="ltr">Ken, I too feel your pain. I had just stated to get things setup, then I decided to update and to my surprise, all applications requiring a keyboard are now useless. I ended up reverting back to the July 21st snapshot for now, but I will try editing the illume theme and rebuilding once I can locate the required tools to edit the themes.<br>
<br>Having a manual keyboard button is an important feature. The automatic keyboard is not going to read my mind and know if I want it visible or not. There may be times that I want the extra screen space to look at something without half the screen taken up as the automatic keyboard suggests or maybe the automatic keyboard isn't 100% bug free with 100% of applications properly implementing support for it. In a perfect world, a system without a manual button might be feasible. However this is far from a perfect world and with an open system like this it is unrealistic to expect 100% of all applications that can/will be used, to work perfectly with the automatic keyboard. Hopefully the order to remove the button will be reversed, as it is sorely missed.<br>
<br>-Jacob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Ken Restivo <<a href="mailto:ken@restivo.org">ken@restivo.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:01:24AM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Berger_ wrote:<br>
> Indeed I fail to see the advantage of having no manual triggering of keyboard.<br>
> On my desktop PC, I have never dreamt of my keyboard popping out of a<br>
> drawer when it thinks I should need it...<br>
><br>
> And this morning, after my daily opkg upgrade... I rebooted ASU and I<br>
> am stuck, not even able to enter my SIM PIN !!<br>
> Because... there was no keyboard on the screen !<br>
><br>
><br>
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</div>I experienced this today too. It rendered my FR useless. Everything I'd finally gotten working yesterday (VTE, Minimo, tasks app) stopped working today, and I'm stuck with, essentially, a brick.<br>
<br>
The keyboard doesn't even pop up automatically anymore, and there's no way to add it.<br>
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Can someone document what hacks are available to bring the Illume keyboard back, and to manually trigger it with that little "qwerty" button that used to be there, in case the designers decide they don't want users to be able to type things in anymore?<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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-ken<br>
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