As a reference it looks a big awkward in those screenshots because I took
those on my 1920x1080 screen on my 17" laptop. It fits better on a
sub-10inch tablet screen.

I wasn't saying it was perfect by any means for a tablet - just that it was
better than the current default (which I know where designed for something
other than a tablet)


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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]
>
>


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