On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:20:34 +0100 Who <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:35:53 +0200 julien cubizolles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > babbled: > > > >> 2 : I don't understand how "predicive" those two keyboards are. For me > >> predictive would mean suggesting the n+1 (or n+p) character when I have > >> pressed n keys. At the moment the only thing it does is suggesting > >> several combination of n keys, to correct some typos I would have made. > >> It's very annoying since the word I correctly typed isn't necessarily > >> displayed among those suggestions. Is that how a "predictive" is > >> supposed to work or am I missing something here ? > > > > with illume's keyboard (my one) in the latest illume's you get a > > dictionary. it should be possible to create a french dictionary - > > take /usr/share/dict/words from your desktop (i assume you have a french > > one) and: > > How different is your keyboard from the Qtopia 'predictive keyboard' - > I don't have a FR yet - so I can't try them out. It sounds, from the > gestures that people describe and the images I've seen that they are > remarkably similar. The Qtopia one is the best touchscreen keyboard > I've ever used > (tried it on an A780 w. OpenEZX...) so I'm curious :)
illume's is very similar. in "simple predictive mode" (really corrective) it works very similarly - just bang on the keyboard roughly where you should press and it'll spell-correct and look for a "best match" and list all matches from best to worse and have a full popup (unlike the qtopia one) for all matches to scroll through, click on that same popup icon when no word is being composed and you get to flip dictionary, and top-right lets you select layout (as well as slide-up). slide-down is a shortcut for enter in illume and left/right slide are the same. illume's dictionary files are flat text though. > Do you work out probabilities in a similar way to them? Can you switch > off the predictive and use 'normal' mode? yes. Terminal layout has almost all keys on a normal qwerty keyboard (ctrl, alt, arrow keys etc.) and doesnt try and predict. > If it is not vastly different, I'm interested to know the reasons you > chose to make a separate one (not in an accusing aggressive way! Just > out of curiousity - I assume there's a good reason :) because it's small, uses efl for theming (thus matches the rest of the wm/desktop env) and not tied to qt/qtopia, and the fact there are a lot of people uncomfortable with qt/qtopia (partly due to history, partly to it being GPL and not LGPL etc.). also i knew there were usability issues with it - it's got a steep learning curve - changing layout is "luck" rthat you happen to figure out sliding up/down changes it. it also has its layouts hard-coded in, whereas illume's are config files thus easier to generate for users - same with dictionaries. so i'm addressing the weak points of the qtopia keyboard, mimicking its strong points as well as providing a small lean one that is flexible. -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community