Automatic pop up kbd

Bobby Martin bobbymartin2 at gmail.com
Fri May 16 17:03:20 CEST 2008


> Subject: Re: Automatic pop up kbd
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:33:13 +0100 Andy Powell <openmoko at automated.it>
> babbled:
>
> > On Friday 16 May 2008 08:53, Tick wrote:
> > > Hi Zecke,
> > >     We are going to make the kbd show and hide automatically.
> <snip>
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Tick
> >
> > Please can you make it possible to switch this off and / or force the
> > keyboard to hide. There's nothing worse than having an external keyboard
> > connected and being forced to waste screen real estate on something you
> don;t
> > need.
>
> design decision was made to remove manual control even though it has been
> there from the beginning. no can do.
>
> --
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>
>

Could we get someone to forward the logic of this design decision?  Not
giving
the user a way to turn something off that occupies > 30% of the screen seems
like, dare I say, a bad design decision.


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