On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:40:43 -0700 (PDT) "neove...@freerunner" <spa...@ymail.com> said:
> > What about first building a decent keyboard with normal keys and then dream > about triangular keys glory? > > Such a triangular keyboard uses lots of space, maybe twice the space of a > normal keyboard. That's certainly not useful on the small freerunner screen > which is also cramped by the casing frame. > > It's sad that this community couldn't even manage to build a decent keyboard > for the freerunner within one year. Is there even any attempt to make one? well people will disagree - qtopia's predictive kbd and illume's do a damn good job given the tiny screen space. ask peolpe who actually use it (and if you dont use english - find a dict for your language). sure - it wont help with shell commands or coding, but in the end you have a TINY screen. i know i complain about my laptop kbd - and it's a 15" device. the kbd is a bit small for doing real code. i have a 10" sony viao x505 - thats pretty much impossible to do real code on. now a 2.8" screen - which you ALSO want to use for displaying stuff... let's get real. you will never have a god kbd for such things. at best u'll have one for pidgeon-pecking out some shortish sms's. be realistic. just because i open and runs linux doesnt mean it can be the be-all and do-all of your computing life. there's more to such devices than just software - like good hardware, good industrial design etc. etc. -- ------------- 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