Hi, This is just to mark a basic discussion we had on #maemo last night. We discussed how badly tab-auto-complete is needed for apps like xchat while using large on-screen keyboard.
It was suggested that adding another <Tab> key, might displace other keys and a sacrifice on keysize will be required. I proposed a quick neat way to do it, which I believe should work, if the enhancement idea is found any good and is worked upon that can be a default behaviour/cpapability of on-screen keyboard to work seamlessly with any Maemo(n800) app. What I suggested ---------------- Problem: * Example app Xchat * Tab-auto-complete is needed for usernames from userlist in a channel window focused Solution: * On-screen keyboard loads the stack of userlist * User/operator starts to type a username initial characters * On-screen keyboard compares from the stack, and offers auto-completion just like known words from dictionary or history * Upon D-pad right-side press, username auto-completes. Possible glitches: * This looks to be simple, but can be a bit complex to manage application to application. * This can make on-screen keyboard consume more resources I believe also might put an impact on lookup, feedback time. Other example apps where this can be useful: * Xterm - command and file name/location autocomplete * Future groupchat enhancements of Jabber/Telepathy Disclaimer: I am not a developer but I'll be glad to see this in code if et-all possible. Regards, Kevin _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
