ASU Keyboard yet again

[Michael Sheldon]

simarillion wrote:
> Thank you,
> it works fine, but how can I switch to the full keyboard which has not only 
> the letters? Do I need an additional package?

  Drag your finger upwards (or downwards) and you'll cycle through the 
layouts (lower case, upper case, symbols, numbers).

  Cheers,
   Mike.

> 
> Greets
> Michael
> 
> Am Donnerstag 24 Juli 2008 18:18:52 schrieb Michael Sheldon:
>> Jeff Tickle wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I just installed the ASU daily build from buildhost yesterday (23 Jul),
>>> and there doesn't seem to be an on-screen keyboard.
>>>
>>> I've been doing a lot of searching around to find out what's up with
>>> the keyboard.  I know that it was added as a 'qwerty' button, and then
>>> removed because the devs want it to automatically appear when there's
>>> text to enter and automatically disappear appropriately.  I'd
>>> personally prefer the manual mode, but I can understand why someone
>>> would want this done automatically.
>>>
>>> Problem for me is that the keyboard never automatically pops up.  I
>>> know this isn't an isolated incident, as this bug report exists:
>>> http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1663
>>>
>>> Of course there's a mention of using some ASU image from
>>> downloads.openmoko.org instead of buildhost.openmoko.org, but I can't
>>> find anything ASU-related after sometime in May on the downloads site.
>>   I had the same issue, the problem is that buildhost isn't building ASU
>> packages from the ASU dev git tree (I'd guess because it's mostly aimed
>> at people running 2007.02). What you need to do is change your opkg
>> feeds to use http://downloads.openmoko.org/openmoko-repository/ASU/
>> which has all the new packages (including an updated version of qpe with
>> keyboard support enabled). You can download the correct config files from:
>>
>> http://www.mikeasoft.com/~mike/opkg-asu.tar.gz
>>
>>   Just move /etc/opkg to /etc/opkg-backup then unpack that to /etc,
>> then: opkg update && opkg upgrade && /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart
>>
>>   The keyboard should now pop up automatically when text areas request it.
>>
>>> I tried editing the
>>> file /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes/illume.edj and setting
>>> 'visible: 1' under the 'part { name: "kbdtext"' section, but that
>>> caused the whole UI to be useless (looks like this file is some sort of
>>> compiled binary, I couldn't find any information on it.)
>>>
>>> So, in short: what is up with the keyboard?
>>   You can grab an illume theme with the qwerty button restored from:
>>
>> http://www.mikeasoft.com/~mike/illume.edj
>>
>>   Just drop that in to /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes/ (note that
>> you'll need to overwrite it again each time illume-theme is updated
>> though).
>>
>>
>>   Cheers,
>>    Mike.
>>
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