<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Jeff Tickle <<a href="mailto:jtickle@tux.appstate.edu" target="_blank">jtickle@tux.appstate.edu</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey all,<br>
<br>
I just installed the ASU daily build from buildhost yesterday (23 Jul),<br>
and there doesn't seem to be an on-screen keyboard.<br>
<br>
I've been doing a lot of searching around to find out what's up with<br>
the keyboard. I know that it was added as a 'qwerty' button, and then<br>
removed because the devs want it to automatically appear when there's<br>
text to enter and automatically disappear appropriately. I'd<br>
personally prefer the manual mode, but I can understand why someone<br>
would want this done automatically.<br>
<br>
Problem for me is that the keyboard never automatically pops up. I<br>
know this isn't an isolated incident, as this bug report exists:<br>
<a href="http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1663" target="_blank">http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1663</a><br>
<br>
Of course there's a mention of using some ASU image from<br>
<a href="http://downloads.openmoko.org" target="_blank">downloads.openmoko.org</a> instead of <a href="http://buildhost.openmoko.org" target="_blank">buildhost.openmoko.org</a>, but I can't<br>
find anything ASU-related after sometime in May on the downloads site.<br>
<br>
I tried editing the<br>
file /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes/illume.edj and setting<br>
'visible: 1' under the 'part { name: "kbdtext"' section, but that<br>
caused the whole UI to be useless (looks like this file is some sort of<br>
compiled binary, I couldn't find any information on it.)<br>
<br>
So, in short: what is up with the keyboard?<br>
<br>
-Jeff<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>In short I have come to understand that the decision was made to go with the Qtopia keyboard over the Illume keyboard, but the Qtopia keyboard needs a layer to auto-request it such as matchbox or multitap (which is not installed by default) and with no manual button there is no easy way to access it. That is how I have come to understand it, please correct me if I am wrong here.<br>
<br>-Jacob<br><br>
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