Toggling keyboard layouts in 2008.8 update

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:53:24 -0400 Alex Fitzpatrick
<agfitzp.openmoko at gmail.com> babbled:

> Yorick Moko wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Alex Fitzpatrick
> > <agfitzp.openmoko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> I found enter! I can die happy now... Enter is last character on the
> >> symbols "page"
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alex
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > hehe,
> > I think you will have a spontaneous orgasm when you discover Raster's
> > keyboard :)
> >
> >   
> I tried that out a few weeks ago when 2008.8 first crash landed ... very 
> nice! But it randomly failed and was replaced with the qtopia one. (As 
> discussed in list and in Trac)

well - it didnt fail... qpe's keyboard just fights with illumes for "who gets
the keyboard slot" - and just luck of the draw as to who is in the list
first :) illume can turn its own off and launch other kbd programs. qpe
currently always has its on all the time - so it will always clash until qpe
can turn it off :) illume has a gui for selecting the keyboard too. so choice
is there. just not exposed in ASU - it's exposed in FSO happily.

> We really need to find a way to allow users to really choose ... there 
> are some places where the predictive text works nicely... like SMS ... 
> but there are lots of places where that full qwerty keyboard is more 
> effective... like typing URLs. Having to choose one over the other by 
> hacking configurations is bloody silly.
> 
> As users we want the sun the moon and the stars and we want them 
> yesterday... with extra cheese! (And blackjack... and hookers!)
> 
> -- 
> Alex
> 
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Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>