Openmoko keyboard mockup

Mathieu Rochette mathroc at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 11:53:37 CET 2009


Shashank Bharadwaj wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
> <raster at rasterman.com <mailto:raster at rasterman.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:46:15 +0000 Jan Henkins <jan at henkins.za.net
>     <mailto:jan at henkins.za.net>> babbled:
>
>      > Hello there,
>      >
>      > Pascal d'Hermilly wrote:
>      > > With 2008.12 release, a well working finger-friendly keyboard
>     is the
>      > > most critical missing feature for me.
>      > > I've made a mockup of a keyboard that I think would make things
>     a lot
>      > > easier to type.
>      > > http://dhermilly.dk/pascal/openmoko/keyboard%20mockup.png
>
>
> I think, the current Raster's Keyboard great for potrait mode. For
> landscape mode(i.e holding neo sideways) however, the keyboard does not
> utilize the extra space. What we need is, imho, a keyboard that would
> increase in size to take up the extra space in this landscape mode. That
> way we'll be able to type even faster. If we could add that fuctionality
> to raster's keyboard, then it'd be just great.
>
if you start the keyboard in landscape mode, it does utilize all 
available place and it's great :)
(in keyboard settings, just select non and then default while in 
landscape mode)

Another thing, I can't test it from office, but, is it possible to have 
multiple at the same position, if so one could make a t9 "like" layout
just put, abc on the same position, def, on another, etc.
would that be possible?

Mathieu.
> Just my INR 0.02.
>
> --
> Regards
> Shashank
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> darkness surrounding it - Albert Einstein
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