Terminal for ASU

[Jacob Peterson]

Ken, I too feel your pain.  I had just stated to get things setup, then I
decided to update and to my surprise, all applications requiring a keyboard
are now useless.  I ended up reverting back to the July 21st snapshot for
now, but I will try editing the illume theme and rebuilding once I can
locate the required tools to edit the themes.

Having a manual keyboard button is an important feature.  The automatic
keyboard is not going to read my mind and know if I want it visible or not.
There may be times that I want the extra screen space to look at something
without half the screen taken up as the automatic keyboard suggests or maybe
the automatic keyboard isn't 100% bug free with 100% of applications
properly implementing support for it.  In a perfect world, a system without
a manual button might be feasible.  However this is far from a perfect world
and with an open system like this it is unrealistic to expect 100% of all
applications that can/will be used, to work perfectly with the automatic
keyboard.  Hopefully the order to remove the button will be reversed, as it
is sorely missed.

-Jacob

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:01:24AM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Berger_
> wrote:
> > Indeed I fail to see the advantage of having no manual triggering of
> keyboard.
> > On my desktop PC, I have never dreamt of my keyboard popping out of a
> > drawer when it thinks I should need it...
> >
> > And this morning, after my daily opkg upgrade... I rebooted ASU and I
> > am stuck, not even able to enter my SIM PIN !!
> > Because... there was no keyboard on the screen !
> >
> >
>
> I experienced this today too. It rendered my FR useless. Everything I'd
> finally gotten working yesterday (VTE, Minimo, tasks app) stopped working
> today, and I'm stuck with, essentially, a brick.
>
> The keyboard doesn't even pop up automatically anymore, and there's no way
> to add it.
>
> Can someone document what hacks are available to bring the Illume keyboard
> back, and to manually trigger it with that little "qwerty" button that used
> to be there, in case the designers decide they don't want users to be able
> to type things in anymore?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -ken
>
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