prediction feature for the keyboard

[Yorick Moko]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Yorick Moko <yorickmoko at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Fredrik Wendt <fredrik at wendt.se> wrote:
>> What I'd LOVE would be to use the entire screen as a keyboard (in
>> landscape mode). A soft layer with low opacity containing only white
>> letters and almost nothing more.
>>
>> http://wendt.se/software/openmoko/screens/keyboard-layer.png is quick a
>> mockup of what I had in mind.
>
> I like your idea! Colors will need some tweaking for different
> backgrounds of course but it seems feasable to me.
> But why only in landscape? Landscape will indeed be better suitable
> for it, but let's not exclude portrait mode.
>

"click and hold" might enable clicking "through" the keyboard to the
underlying layer?
This would make it a great keyboard: it takes up virtually NO screen
real estate, big buttons, and you can switch text fields, copy/paste,
scroll.. Without the keyboard the need to disappear and appear again.

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