<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;">Subject: Re: Automatic pop up kbd<br>On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:33:13 +0100 Andy Powell <<a href="mailto:openmoko@automated.it">openmoko@automated.it</a>> babbled:<br>
<br>
> On Friday 16 May 2008 08:53, Tick wrote:<br>
> > Hi Zecke,<br>
> > We are going to make the kbd show and hide automatically.<br><snip><br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks.<br>
> > Tick<br>
><br>
> Please can you make it possible to switch this off and / or force the<br>
> keyboard to hide. There's nothing worse than having an external keyboard<br>
> connected and being forced to waste screen real estate on something you don;t<br>
> need.<br>
<br>
design decision was made to remove manual control even though it has been<br>
there from the beginning. no can do.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <<a href="mailto:raster@openmoko.org">raster@openmoko.org</a>><br></blockquote></div><br>Could we get someone to forward the logic of this design decision? Not giving<br>the user a way to turn something off that occupies > 30% of the screen seems<br>
like, dare I say, a bad design decision.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>If it doesn't make you smile, you're doing something wrong.