Good point about T9 kimaidou, but as far as I know the T9 itself is a
patented technology, and would not be able to appear on Moko officially...
kimaidou wrote:
Hi all,
I am glad people (re-)start to talk about keyboards.
2 points:
* Another great improvement compared to the iphone, illume, etc. ones,
would be to have a transparent keyboard, using the whole screen, but
allowing to see through it. Of course we need the transparency % to be
changed by the user. What about the technical feasibility of that ?
Would it be possible ? I thing for example about the Qwo keyboard (
http://www.opkg.org/package_84.html ) which would be very finger
friendly in full screen (like the other one)
* I don't get how the dictionnary (illume and qtopia) actually helps
to write some word. In mobile phones, on which you have only 9 numbers
to type, so 3 letters by number, the "T9" dictionnary was really
helpfull, because it showed a list of words possible with the
combination of the letters entered. I could actually write sms faster
with only 9 keys than now with a complete qwerty keyboard because the
buttons were much bigger and I had only 9 button to search among. Here
with the FR, the "eyes and brain" must locate the desired letter among
much more and much smaller keys. And furthermore, I don't see the
point with the dictionnary. The dictionnary only shows words with the
same number of letters as the ones entered. So it does not provide a
way to easily choose a word (for example, when I type "for" it must
show "for", "forest", force", etc., but with the illume keyboard it
only shows "for" and other useless words like :"big", "fit", die",
but", etc.--> not very related to "for" ) People using OpenOffice
Writer with the autocompletion activated will understand what I am
trying to explain with my limited english skills..
My 2 cents :) , of course in a constructive way
Kimaidou
2009/1/6 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com
<mailto:ras...@rasterman.com>>
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:08:41 +0530 "Shashank Bharadwaj"
<shanka....@gmail.com <mailto:shanka....@gmail.com>>
babbled:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <
> ras...@rasterman.com <mailto:ras...@rasterman.com>> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:46:15 +0000 Jan Henkins
<j...@henkins.za.net <mailto:j...@henkins.za.net>>
> > babbled:
> >
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > Pascal d'Hermilly wrote:
> > > > With 2008.12 release, a well working finger-friendly
keyboard is the
> > > > most critical missing feature for me.
> > > > I've made a mockup of a keyboard that I think would make
things a lot
> > > > easier to type.
> > > > http://dhermilly.dk/pascal/openmoko/keyboard%20mockup.png
> >
>
> I think, the current Raster's Keyboard great for potrait mode.
For landscape
> mode(i.e holding neo sideways) however, the keyboard does not
utilize the
> extra space. What we need is, imho, a keyboard that would
increase in size
> to take up the extra space in this landscape mode. That way
we'll be able to
> type even faster. If we could add that fuctionality to raster's
keyboard,
> then it'd be just great.
that's a matter of just fixing the code to handle resizing
appropriately.
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