ASU Keyboard yet again

[Michael Sheldon]

Jeff Tickle wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:18:52 +0100
> Michael Sheldon <mike at mikeasoft.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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).
> 
> ASU is AWESOME once it's working properly.  Thanks so much!
> 
> I'd like to put this on the Wiki.  Is it okay if I link directly to
> those files, or is there some way we can upload such arbitrary files to
> the current wiki?

  I'm fine with you linking to them, plenty of spare bandwidth ;)

Cheers,
  Mike.