Michael Zanetti wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm using the illume keyboard on my OM2008.12 powered Freerunner. I have > created my own keyboard layouts that perfectly fit to my needs: > 1. qwerty without any special characters - Finger friendly
illume-keyboards-numbers-alt http://www.opkg.org/package_106.html > 2. Numbers and most special chars - Finger friendly > 3. Full-featured notebook-like with all the crap you never need - Stylus > friendly you can take this one as inspiration illume-keyboards-dutch-nl http://www.opkg.org/package_87.html the characters with diacritics are optimised for dutch language according to character histograms but it is perfect for stylus ful feature work. > > When using my FR as on the go, I constantly need the first two layouts. And I > have to switch quite often beween them but I never use the third one. > When I'm at home and fiddle around with lots of terminals and stuff like > that, > it happens that I need the third layout. But then, I have a stylus. > > The problem now is, that when I'm writing a message using my thumb and switch > between the different layouts I need to slide the keyboard up once to switch > from the qwerty layout to the numbers but I have to slide up twice to get > back > to the qwerty one. This is because I have to hop over the full-featured > layout > that I cannot use with my fingers. > > The idea is this: > It would be great to be able to define if a layout should be addressed when > sliding the finger up. This way, only the finger-friendly keyboards would be > visible when using the FR only with your fingers. When using a stylus one > could > still open the terminal-keyboard using the menu on the upper right of the > keyboard. > This could be done by defining a property in the keyboard file just like for > example the property for enabling/disabling the dictionary. > > IMHO this is not the ultra-mind-blowing idea, but would be a little step > closer to the worlds best on-screen-keyboard. > > What do you think? > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community