Input Method - Missing Buttongrip
openmokolist.50.minime at xoxy.net
openmokolist.50.minime at xoxy.net
Sat May 5 21:48:22 CEST 2007
Hi there,
here we go, first mailinglist post :)
It has been often argued that it will not be easy to use a touchpad-only
phone if one does not see the displayed keyboard because of the lack
hard-buttons you can actually feel and touch. Textmessaging therefore
needs complete focus on the phone's display and you can't write or
adjust anything on your phone without looking at it.
Idea: Why not have a one-finger-fix and four(or three)-fingers-write
input? With all five or four fingers on the phone's display, one(maybe
your little finger or thumb) defines a fixpoint on the display. The
other fingers now can be put on certain points at relative locations to
the fixpointing finger(several input method ideas can be implemented
from here on).
This way one would not be dependent on absolute positions of a displayed
keyboard one would not be able to feel, but one would be able to create
those points by pointing a finger there.
I acknowledge that there would be several implementations problems
coming up, like how to change between a fixed-finger-input-method and a
fixed displayed keyboard and menus.
minime/tim
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