On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:34:14 +0100 Xavier Cremaschi <omega.xav...@gmail.com> babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) a écrit : > > as such composing is not supported. the intent is for the dictionary > > to make > > that much easier - for disctionary words it decimates: > > > > é -> e > > è -> e > > ö -> o > > ñ -> n > > etc. - that means you just type "n" and this can match n,N,ñ,Ñ etc. (think > > strcasecmp - but a wider range). > > > > so this means you can dumbly type in basic latin text and it will fill in > > the accents for you in the possible matches. this should almost always be > > faster and less toublesome that the mountains of composition combinations. > Mmm therefore I should not have the last version (Om2008.12 here), as : > - élégance is a french word and is in my dictionary > - I wrote elenance (made a typo) > - suggestions are : elenance, flamands > > How can I check that ? the problem is that there is a utf8 parsing bug in the dict - it was fixed recent;y in svn, 2008.x will likely not get the fixes for a long time. but now dict matching is VERY slow. > > for > > when it isn't in the dict (a name for example of a place or person) then > > there is the "numbers" layout that lets you put all the accented chars you > > like there > > - complete. > > > > so that's how it works NOW. so it's possible to enter - you just need to add > > chars to your default .kbd layout if you must have them, for the occasion > > you MUST enter something not in the dictionary (remember it learns so you > > only have to enter it once), then you need to flip to some alternate .kbd > > with all the accents. > > > Ok so I think I will just maximize the key size and display : > - normal letters > - caps + normal letters = capital letters (caps stays locked, cool for > shouting) > - shift + normal letters = a selection of common accented a e i o u > And maybe also another Numbers keyboard with just 10 huge numbers (typo > on PIN = hazardous). > > > An idea to increase the height of the keyboard area ? (editing > illume.edj maybe ?) > And is it possible to instantiate the keyboard through ssh -X for > screenshoting ? that's determined by the .kbd "virtual" resolution (at the top of the .kbd file) :) Default.kbd ends up determining it (it retains aspect ratio and expands to fill the screen width - thus height scale accordingly). as doe screenshot - compile e for your desktop - run in xephyr/xnest. life gets much easier if you do your dev there. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community