On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 19:51:37 -0800 Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]> said:

> 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.

hmm tho it'd scale similarly on such a device as height is calculated from
widht and landscape mode makes it... really wide! :) 

> 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]
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> ~Jeff Hoogland <http://jeffhoogland.com/>
> Thoughts on Technology <http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/>, Tech Blog
> Bodhi Linux <http://bodhilinux.com/>, Enlightenment for your Desktop


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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]


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