There is also matchbox-stroke. It's in the openmoko repos. Just do: opkg install matchbox-stroke. I tried it on Om2008.12 and I like it. But the configuration file is incomplete, so it's impossible to enter many letters and characters. Even space was not configured, I configured it manually in the configuration file. So if someone would write a good configuration file for it, it should be usable.<br>
<br>Matchbox-stroke puts a white space on the bottom of the screen. You don't need so much space to write a character. I think we could use the combination of handwriting and buttons. Maybe something like this - <a href="http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2745/strokemg2.png">http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2745/strokemg2.png</a> (I made it with GIMP). The @#$ button would display an onscreen keyboard to enter special characters (because I tink its hard to remember the strokes for all the characters) and the "mode" button would toggle between number mode, lower case mode and upper case mode. I tink this should be usable with fingers too. I would do this myself, but I can't code :(<br>
<br>I think that if we had a good handwriting recognition program, all the keyboard problems would be solved. At least for me. Because I used to have Sony Ericsson P800 and I really liked it's handwriting recognition. I could hold the phone in my hand and write the characters with the same hand's thumb. I lost the stylus of my P800 long time ago and I wasn't missing it at all.<br>
<br><br>On Debian I tried cellwriter too. It works really good, but it's only usable with stylus.<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Yorick Moko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yorickmoko@gmail.com">yorickmoko@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">haven't tried it, but there is also Strokerecog:<br>
<a href="https://projects.openmoko.org/projects/strokerecog/" target="_blank">https://projects.openmoko.org/projects/strokerecog/</a><br>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:22 PM, arne anka <<a href="mailto:openmoko@ginguppin.de">openmoko@ginguppin.de</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> there's rosetta<br>
>> <a href="http://www.handhelds.org/project/rosetta/" target="_blank">http://www.handhelds.org/project/rosetta/</a><br>
> and i managed to compile it and install on my debian/fso.<br>
> but so far i had not much time to test it (wasn't that convincing the<br>
> first tries), and anyway it seems pretty much abandoned.<br>
><br>
> another attempt is cellwriter<br>
>> <a href="http://risujin.org/cellwriter" target="_blank">http://risujin.org/cellwriter</a><br>
> which at least is in debian -- i totally forgot about this until now, have<br>
> to try it come weekend.<br>
><br>
> both are not really like graffiti, which best part was the standardized<br>
> shapes instead of complex learning and recognizing algorithm for every<br>
> single hand.<br>
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