Hi all,<br><br>I am glad people (re-)start to talk about keyboards.<br><br>2 points:<br><br>* 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 ( <a href="http://www.opkg.org/package_84.html">http://www.opkg.org/package_84.html</a> ) which would be very finger friendly in full screen (like the other one)<br>
<br>* 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..<br>
<br>My 2 cents :) , of course in a constructive way<br><br>Kimaidou<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/6 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com">raster@rasterman.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:08:41 +0530 "Shashank Bharadwaj" <<a href="mailto:shanka.mns@gmail.com">shanka.mns@gmail.com</a>><br>
babbled:<br>
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> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <<br>
> <a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com">raster@rasterman.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:46:15 +0000 Jan Henkins <<a href="mailto:jan@henkins.za.net">jan@henkins.za.net</a>><br>
> > babbled:<br>
> ><br>
> > > Hello there,<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Pascal d'Hermilly wrote:<br>
> > > > With 2008.12 release, a well working finger-friendly keyboard is the<br>
> > > > most critical missing feature for me.<br>
> > > > I've made a mockup of a keyboard that I think would make things a lot<br>
> > > > easier to type.<br>
> > > > <a href="http://dhermilly.dk/pascal/openmoko/keyboard%20mockup.png" target="_blank">http://dhermilly.dk/pascal/openmoko/keyboard%20mockup.png</a><br>
> ><br>
><br>
> I think, the current Raster's Keyboard great for potrait mode. For landscape<br>
> mode(i.e holding neo sideways) however, the keyboard does not utilize the<br>
> extra space. What we need is, imho, a keyboard that would increase in size<br>
> to take up the extra space in this landscape mode. That way we'll be able to<br>
> type even faster. If we could add that fuctionality to raster's keyboard,<br>
> then it'd be just great.<br>
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</div>that's a matter of just fixing the code to handle resizing appropriately.<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) <a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com">raster@rasterman.com</a><br>
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