ASU keyboards, again

[Al Johnson]

Are you thinking of the matchbox  keyboard?

On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Jelle De Loecker wrote:
> Jus tot egt things straight: how many keyboards are there?
>
> We have the qpe one, we have this terminal one (with the bevels and
> such) but wasn't there another one, a full keyboard with no fancy graphics?
>
> /Met vriendelijke groeten,/
>
> *Jelle De Loecker*
> Kipdola Studios - Tomberg
>
> David Samblas schreef:
> > I have followed th Raster indications to install spanish dictionary and
> > it works :)
> >
> > Note to Ubuntu/Debian users, the compatible dictionaries are installed
> > on /usr/share/dict/
> > if you dont find your lenguage there do
> >
> > #apt-cache search wordlist|grep ^w|sort
> >
> > to show avaiable lenguages
> >
> > change wspanish for your lenguage
> >
> > #apt-get install wspanish
> >
> > and
> >
> > then
> > # scp /usr/share/dict/spanish
> > root at 192.168.0.202:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts/spanish.di
> >c
> >
> > Avoid the shorting part because this dictionaries are already shorted
> > and depending on the locales you will only messit
> >
> > El mar, 26-08-2008 a las 22:40 +1000, Carsten Haitzler escribió:
> >> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:35:53 +0200 julien cubizolles
> >> <j.cubizolles at free.fr>
> >>
> >> babbled:
> >>> I've installed raster's image, mainly to get its great keyboard, and I
> >>> love being able to switch modes/adding my own (french keyboard).
> >>
> >> great! see below about adding a french dictionary :)
> >>
> >>> However I have some isssues.
> >>>
> >>> 1 : sometimes, an application calls a keyboard and I get stuck with the
> >>> old keyboard. Is there a way to prevent that from opening so that no
> >>> matter what I always get raster's one ?
> >>
> >> this is a matter of qpe still making its keyboard and qpe and illume
> >> clashing. it manages to make sure no big mess happens, but it means it's
> >> a luck of the draw (first in, first served) as to which keyboard gets
> >> displayed. :( can't turn qpe's keyboard off currently.
> >>
> >>> 2 : I don't understand how "predicive" those two keyboards are. For me
> >>> predictive would mean suggesting the n+1 (or n+p) character when I have
> >>> pressed n keys. At the moment the only thing it does is suggesting
> >>> several combination of n keys, to correct some typos I would have made.
> >>> It's very annoying since the word I correctly typed isn't necessarily
> >>> displayed among those suggestions. Is that how a "predictive" is
> >>> supposed to work or am I missing something here ?
> >>
> >> with illume's keyboard (my one) in the latest illume's you get a
> >> dictionary. it should be possible to create a french dictionary - take
> >> /usr/share/dict/words from your desktop (i assume you have a french one)
> >> and:
> >>
> >> sort -f words > French.dic
> >> scp French.dic
> >> 192.168.0.202:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts/
> >>
> >> (assuming your FR is plugged in). then it will use french words to
> >> predict - if you select the French dictionary. :)
> >>
> >> but as such it will display the most likely matches in the dictionary
> >> based on how far the "typo" is from the word (the closest wins). it
> >> doesn't try and predict at all - only "fix" so you have to type all the
> >> letters - it just makes up for typos and a "fat finger" on a "small
> >> screen". press top-left dictionary icon to select dictionaries when no
> >> word is being composed (select this to list ALL matches - EXACTLY what
> >> you typed will be the first thing in the list always - if you select it
> >> it gets added to your personal dictionary so it can match and fix your
> >> typos later).
> >>
> >>> Btw Is there a way to scroll through the suggestions of the predictive
> >>> keyboard ?
> >>
> >> illume's one? left dict icon above the keys of the keyboard - vertical
> >> list of them. just drag it up and down - select the one you want. :)
> >
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