Re: can't type ~ in browser

2009-12-12 Thread Josef Assad
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
 
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Re: can't type ~ in browser

2009-12-12 Thread Andrew Flegg
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.

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Re: can't type ~ in browser

2009-12-12 Thread Josef Assad
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.

 
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