Re: YAIKT - Yet Another Illume Keyboard Thread
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
Re: YAIKT - Yet Another Illume Keyboard Thread
Thanks for your reply. But I think you misunderstood me. I already have created my keyboards and use them since over a month now. In fact, they are very similar to the ones you have posted but optimized for german text. Anyways, this thread should discuss the slide-up-to-switch-layout functionality but not the layouts itself. On Monday 02 February 2009 12:19:06 Pander wrote: 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 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: YAIKT - Yet Another Illume Keyboard Thread
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:55:12 +0100, Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.net 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: 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. Just checking - are you aware that you should be able to slide down as well? if you have three keyvboard layouts defined, the 'other two' are always a single stroke away, up or down. j -- Joel Newkirk http://jthinks.com (blog) http://newkirk.us/om (FR stuff) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
YAIKT - Yet Another Illume Keyboard Thread
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 2. Numbers and most special chars - Finger friendly 3. Full-featured notebook-like with all the crap you never need - Stylus friendly 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
Re: YAIKT - Yet Another Illume Keyboard Thread
On Monday 02 February 2009 12:25:46 Joel Newkirk wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:55:12 +0100, Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.net 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: 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. Just checking - are you aware that you should be able to slide down as well? if you have three keyvboard layouts defined, the 'other two' are always a single stroke away, up or down. Sliding down results in a Enter keypress here... Only sliding up changes the layout. Michael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
