on screen keyboard?

Federico Lorenzi florenzi at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 19:05:09 CEST 2008


Afaik raster was working on a magic keyboard that had all sorts of
cool features.

On 7/5/08, Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2008, arne anka wrote:
>> hi,
>> somebody asked thsi already a while ago (but got no answer):
>> is there a package available providing a better keyboard than that
>> included w/ the freerunner, resembling a multi tap phone keyboard?
>> honestly, i can't figure out a rationale for spending effort on
>> implementing such a limited keyboard, it even misses crucial characters!
>
> You can at least modify the character map for the multitap keyboard - it's
> in
> etc/multitap-pad/im-multipress.conf
> You can add printing characters like slashes, pipe and so on. Not ideal but
> at
> least a bit more useful.
>
>> so, is there a fullblown keyboard (hopefully with up/down and tab, so one
>> can sroll in hitory and use completion)?
>> opkg list | grep keyboard
>> gives only matchbox-strokes which looks nice but is not really functional
>
> I found the same as you last night. I was trying to follow the instructions
> at
> 	http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Switching_Keyboards
> I've just used mokomakefile to build the packages:
> 	make build-package-matchbox-keyboard-inputmethod
> I'll let you know how I get on...
>
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