On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:16:57 -0600 Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]> said:
> After talking with raster last night on IRC I realized I've never forwarded > the default .kbd file I've customized with tablets in mind up stream - > others might find it useful. It provides a fairly basic, three row keyboard: > > http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-50c0d2146e3083.02166004.jpg > http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-50c0d2211eff02.47955663.jpg ummm gotta say... i dont think that is all that much better. those keys are insanely massive... you have pretty much the same keys as the default (almost) - just even bigger minus the padding. i did this before for just myself - i made the keys smaller for a 10" exopc tablet - like half the size and it worked well - basically the layouts that ship were really made for a device with a portrait 2.8" screen where on a good day u could use 2" of it for actual touches - so on a bigger screen the kbd is hopelessly bloated and big. methinks the solution is actually making the kbd "smarter" in dealing with both scaling and sizing - it needs to deal with "finger size" and maybe based on that plus some "padding" config for the kbd - choose a better layout for that screen - one that adds more keys for example. this would cover the portrait and landscape case AND cover a whole range of screen sizes (form like 2" up to 20") as long as enough layouts were given to cover the extremes and various points in between. finger_size will let e know how big a key must be to be hit... so we're talking elm. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
