Re: can't type ~ in browser
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:14:16PM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:07, Jeffrey Mark Siskind q...@purdue.edu wrote: In the URL entry bar in the Web browser on the N900, I can't type a ~. If I type th eblue arrow, Sym the virtual keyboard comes up. I can click on ~ and it gets highlighted. But unlike in the X terminal, it doesn't then deexpose and enter the ~ in the URL entry bar. Is this a bug or have I just not figured out how to do this the intended way? Tap the ~, press space and then join the ranks of people upset by the broken, unobvious, unintuitive and just plain crazy behaviour of the character palette. I can see the point when the special character is necessary as a modifier to a regular character for languages that need them. If there's a more straightforward way to accomodate people who need ñ, ô, ü, etc. then I can't think of it. I'd say vote for the bug, but can't find it (perhaps the easiest way of finding it would be to raise it again and let Andre mark it as a dupe ;-)) Here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5314 Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users -- import sig ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: can't type ~ in browser
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:33, Josef Assad j...@donassad.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:14:16PM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: Tap the ~, press space and then join the ranks of people upset by the broken, unobvious, unintuitive and just plain crazy behaviour of the character palette. I can see the point when the special character is necessary as a modifier to a regular character for languages that need them. Absolutely. I'm not arguing that there doesn't need to be a way of composing characters... If there's a more straightforward way to accomodate people who need ñ, ô, ü, etc. then I can't think of it. ...what I'm arguing is that it doesn't make sense for it to look and (from a button point-of-view) feel similarly to the other buttons in the palette; it doesn't make sense for it to be the third row (when rows 1, 2 and 4 act the same) and that it's unobvious even for people who are *used* to composing characters. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5314 Ta. -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: can't type ~ in browser
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:48:49PM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:33, Josef Assad j...@donassad.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:14:16PM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: ...what I'm arguing is that it doesn't make sense for it to look and (from a button point-of-view) feel similarly to the other buttons in the palette; it doesn't make sense for it to be the third row (when rows 1, 2 and 4 act the same) and that it's unobvious even for people who are *used* to composing characters. I'll say it confused me too, even though I need those modified characters and am used to deadkeys. Apart from making the character modifier palette buttons more distinct (maybe a different button color?) what might have unconfuzzled me would have been a system notification instructing me to type one more character, or a space; the thin yellow bar across the top. There's probably better ideas out there though. -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ -- import sig ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users