2008.8 - issue

[Dale Maggee]

William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 21:21 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
>   
>> How do you type something like "apm" into the terminal application? - oh
>> how I *HATE* predictive text :(
>>
>> Is there a way to kill it?
>>
>> BillK
>>
>>     
>
> Still want to kill it - preferably permanently.  I cant believe anyone
> thought this was a good idea :(
>
> Also looks like there is no backspace key to even try to fix the mess it
> makes of text.
>
> I'll have to ignore the terminal until someone fixes it up .
>
> BillK
>   

I'm right there with ya, bill - it's very pretty, but the predictive 
text is *so* annoying! seems pretty unneccessary for a qwerty keyboard 
to me - I thought it was interesting to learn that when i typed in 
'internode', I actually meant 'interview'?!? :O

Also I find the way it automatically adds spaces to be annoying, not 
very good in a terminal.

It's a *big* improvement in terms of finger-pressability over the 
matchbox keyboard on 2007.2, and it's *much* prettier, but the 
predictive text makes it more difficult to use, especially in a terminal.

I'd also really like to see an enter key on the qwerty page, and maybe 
(I know I'm pushing it here) a couple of the most commonly used symbols 
such as hyphen and period on the qwerty page.

-Dale