Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:07:52PM +0200, Neil Jerram wrote: > >> Hello everyone, this is my first openmoko email, so please be gentle! >> >> It seems clear to me that the so-called "predictive" keyboard is not >> actually predictive at all; it is actually "fuzzy", in terms of how it >> maps your stylus or finger position to a set of possible intended >> letters. >> >> In particular, surely this text in the wiki - >> >> "The word recognition will try to guess the next inputs and displays >> the word it thinks you want to write." >> >> - is just nonsense, isn't it? I've never seen it guess at any letters >> beyond those that I've already pressed. >> >> I'm ready to register and update the wiki to say something closer to >> reality - but I just want to check first that I'm not missing or >> misunderstanding something. >> > > I actually think of it as "restrictive" instead of "predictive" because > it only allows me to write what it thinks I want, and should give up as > soon as it couldn't match a word. > > Having to wait 2s per letter for it to write what I want instead of what > it thinks I want sucks :) > > Rui > > I'd have to agree with Rui, I've installed FDOM which has raster's terminal keyboard so I just don't worry about it anymore
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