[SHR] illume predictive keyboard is too slow - Usability features

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:15:53 +0100 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <mail at 3v1n0.net>
said:

> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:53:26 +0100 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)"
> > <mail at 3v1n0.net> said:
> >> However in the past days I sent you privately also a mail about some
> >> issues of the keyboard in latest e17 svn [1], but I got no answer.
> >> Maybe the mail wasn't sent correctly?!
> > 
> > got it - i just tend to ignore some of my mailboxes for a while and cycle
> > around to them... got a lot of email here :) i'll get back to you on it. it
> > just is that kbd isnt a focus at the moment so it tends to take a
> > back-burner position.
> 
> Ah, ok... It's understandable...
> 
> >> They seem unrelated, but why not workarounding them by allowing these
> >> actions only after a small timeout (i.e. waiting few ms from the latest
> >> char pressure)?
> > 
> > so > lets say 0.4 sec after the last keyboard key press it will allow for
> > swipes and match hits etc. that could be done. again - tuning a timing
> > value. will people then complain that ":i often try and swipe or hit a
> > match and it doesnt respond. i need to do it again"?. hmmmm.
> 
> Maybe 0.4 seconds is too much. I think that we could use a lower value
> too. And maybe configurable directly from the keyboard (also if I don't
> think that this is needed at all).
> 
> >> Generally you never confirm a word or switch keyboard as fast as you
> >> type over a char (since typing can be un-precise thanks to the keyboard
> >> correction, switching a keyboard or selecting a word must be precise)...
> > 
> > correct. it's a fine line to walk tho - as above :)
> > 
> >> And... What about making the horizontal word list (the one over the
> >> keys) scrollable [right-left] as the configuration toolbar is? Would it
> >> require more computation? I figure that that could improve the usability.
> > 
> > no - it'd be not much of a problem - i just didnt do it. :)
> 
> Ok, so please put it in your/illume TODO :P

:)

> > nb - i can see why you often hit a match word. your kbd layout doesnt have
> > padding ABOVE the qwerty line like the default does... :)
> 
> Yes. That's true. But people could have also keyboards with more keys
> than the mine (see Norwegians :P), and make the words-list and the keys
> closer.
> The fact is that also using the default qwerty keyboard, that has more
> padding, it could happen to hit a word if you're writing while
> walking/driving[ehm... :P]/talking (or simply writing quickly)...
> Don't you agree?

oh indeed it can happen.. but its much less likely - it never has happened to
me, thus why i think its probably ok. but with that padding removed on your
kbd, i can see how it becomes much more probable you hit these things at the
top. you should just add more padding :) the problem is the kbd wont resize per
layout atm so the default determines the size so if yours is the default then
just make sure it has padding and the problem should go away.

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