Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@openmoko.com">sean@openmoko.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;">
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Are you running the latest kernel? (The way to tell is if you have<br>
kinetic scrolling, yes == latest kernel)<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I am running whatever version the device was delivered with.<br>It doesn't look like scrolling is kinetic.<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/wikireader/wikireader/kernel-2009-10-30.zip" target="_blank">http://cloud.github.com/downloads/wikireader/wikireader/kernel-2009-10-30.zip</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Ah! I was looking around on the WikiReader web site for updates, I didn't think about github.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Scrolling is really really good there.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I'll get it and see if I can update my card.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You can hold down the backspace key. It will delete the word extremely<br>
fast. We're working on a few minor UI changes for the next release.<br>
Clear will be more obvious<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I really hope you will implement a "clear" button - one button press is faster than holding down the backspace key, IMHO. <br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>We didn't want to add another button. We might use left to right<br>
swipes in a later release. Not sure yet...<br></blockquote><div><br>Swipes might work.<br><br>It doesn't have to be a physical button - how about using a corner of the screen for that purpose?<br>Not really sure it would work - if I am right handed, I will use the thumb of my right hand to scroll on the right side of the screen, and a button on the lower left corner of the screen wouldn't interfere. However, if a left handed person used the device, he or she might use the left side of the screen to scroll. Hmm, this idea needs more thinking.<br>
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> Annoyances:<br>
> - it is impossible (for me at least) to take out the microSD card without using a tool (pliers or something). Why do I want to take it out? To actually show people the small size of a Wikipedia database. :-)<br>
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</div>Push it in and it will pop out (beware it will *really* pop sometimes)<br></blockquote><div><br>Not on mine. I have tried - it never pos out. I also tried shakking the device - no, the card doesn't want to come out. My workaround is a handle made of tape - see my other post.<br>
Without that, I need something that can grab the cardon the sides - my fingers / nails doesn't fit in there (ok, I can do it, but it takes almost a minute, and a lot of cursing :-) ).<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> - the buttons on the on screen keyboard is a bit small for my fingers (it is easy to press the character left or right of the one I want). I don't know how to solve this yet.<br>
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</div>Software. If you've used an iPhone, the keypad is 70% of WikiReader's<br>
size. And typing is a lot better. So just bear with us. We're working<br>
on this big time.<br></blockquote><div><br>Cool. I never have used an iPhone - I have a FreeRunner (and a 1973).<br>FWIW, I had this idea about the keyboard: if nothing else works, you could always "split" the keyboard in a left and a right half, and only show one half at a time (with a button to switch to the other half). Not ideal, but then the buttons could be almost twice as wide.<br>
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Like David said, we encourage you to check out <a href="http://github.com/wikireader" target="_blank">github.com/wikireader</a> for now.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I will do that.<br clear="all"></div></div>-- <br>
Regards,<br>Torfinn Ingolfsen<br>