Re: Hardware/Software UI Relationship
On 17.07.2007 08:32:24, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On 7/17/07, Lars Hallberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The QUERTY keyboard is 14 keys wide on a 55mm wide screen (and it has bevels). That makes 3.9 mm per key. It's a bit painful, but I use it with fingers all the time (fingernails rather). Keys twice that size should work just fine. Although the phone I currently use has physical keys, they are 4.8 mm x 5.0 mm. It felt cramped the first days, but works ok after that, even with fingers. :-) Myself, I'm frustrated with the hardware keys on 'modern' phones. They are small, hard to press, offer little to no feedback and bounce back and forth. An improved on-screen keyboard or even libgstroke bindings would be way better for input. Greetings, Benjamin -- Benjamin 'blindCoder' Schieder Registered Linux User #289529: http://counter.li.org finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg --import -- http://www.rocklinux.org/ The Distribution Build Kit pgptqRdcmZM29.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Is it developer-user ready?
Hi List. I'm new around here so please forgive me if this is the wrong list to inquire. I need a new phone and am almost at the point of ordering a Nea1973 now. (Hooray to you \o/) As a Linux userspace programmer, I'm really looking forward to finally write my own mobile phone programs. I've got experience with Garnet OS programming and always thought about getting a Treo650 back then but didn't have the cash. Still, since this is going to be a _replacement_ I'd really love to have two things possible: 1) Making and receiving calls (doh) 2) Sending and receiving short messages. I've read on the gsmd-devel list that this is being worked on. I've no problems with creating my own user interface to this. (probably will do that anyway) 3) A phone book to store my contacts in would be nice, but for now a lack of that wouldn't be a showstopper to me. Those things are everything I've ever used on a mobile phone since the applications available were never useful to me. If I could write my own apps, this would definately change (good bye trusty old Palm V). Any insights on the above would be great. Don't have to have fancy UI or anything, just that functionality is there to use from my own programs is enough. On that same note, a step-by-step guide on setting up a development environment on my self-baked Linux system would be nice, too. For now what I found is this: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko which doesn't make much sense to me. Will it make sense once I installed bitbake and the rest of the software? Thank you for your time, Benjamin pgpyo1SKtTh0v.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
