input method : dasher

Steven ** montgoss+openmokocommunity at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 17:42:53 CEST 2009


If you use Debian on your Neo, a dasher package is available.  It
works, but the animations are unbearably slow.  I don't know if there
are options compiled in that we don't need.  There are surely some
optimizations that can be done...

Several of the command line options failed as well.  I believe one of
the ones that doesn't work is the one that would make dasher usable as
a keyboard on the Neo.  The default start mode opens dasher as a sort
of text editor.  So, the characters you "type" go into a text field
instead of whatever app you want to type in...  I think there is an
option that would make it act more like a regular keyboard, sending
key events.

-Steven

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:55 AM, swap38<swap38 at openmoko-fr.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the end of this article [1], there's a comment about Dasher [2].
> It's a strange but simple funny input method that can be very fast ("39
> words per minute").
>
> Dasher support numerous languages and the source code is open.
> A version for mobile device (ARMv4 / Windows Mobile) is in developed by
> Glen Femandes.
>
> Do you think Dasher can be useful for the Neo Freerunner ?
>
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/336787/
> [2] http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
>
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> swap38
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