full-keyboard for Om 2008.08? -> SOLVED ?

Andreas Hennig hennig.a at gmx.de
Tue Aug 12 21:12:26 CEST 2008


I dont have the file /usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/keyboards/Full-
QWERTY.kbd
But after boot i can see the full qwerty keyboard to enter the SIM-pin and 1 
sec later enlightenment crashes and afer recover the old keyboard is back :-(


Am Monday 11 August 2008 schrieb Olivier Berger:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org> writes:
> > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:10:20 +0200 Olivier Berger <oberger at ouvaton.org> 
babbled:
> >> DooD <leetdood16 at gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Hmm figured out why my above fix was only working on my asu build and
> >> > not my om2008.8.... need to install
> >> >
> >> > http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily-feed/armv4t/illume_0.0+svnr196-r12
> >> >_armv4t.ipk
> >> >
> >> > this version seems to let me use whatever keyboard i like, which is
> >> > how it should be. hope it doesnt magically disappear >.> .....
> >>
> >> Would you care to elaborate on "let me use whatever keyboard i like" ?
> >>
> >> Maybe you may add a howto into
> >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/ASU_Keyboard_Toggle ?
> >>
> >> Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > illume's code can use it's internal keyboard, do nothing at all (and just
> > wait until some external keyboard  is run - like qpe does) or run a
> > keyboard process for you. it even will queue multiple keyboards if more
> > than 1 was launched - but it works with a first-come-first-served policy
> > there. the gui config is simple (chose none, internal default or some of
> > N others). the gui will list any .desktop files it found that have
> > "Keyboard" in the categories list for the .desktop.
>
> Thanks alot for these details.
>
> And glad some nice soul added details to :
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2008.8_Keyboard#Using_the_Full_Qwerty_keybo
>ard
>
> I call it an issue solved by the community while the support staff was
> on weekend break ;-)
>
> > but of course this config dialog isn't really meant to be
> > supported. not in ASU/2008.8 so it's more of a "if you somehow find it
> > and get it up - use at your own risk".
> >
> > :)
>
> You mean OM 2008.8 *is* supported ? ;-) ... sorry, couldn't help it.
>
> Well, more seriously : as it fixes a major usability defect of OM 2008.8,
> I'd expect it to be supported !
>
> Best regards,


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