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