On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:24:51 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> i dont have a clue what a chording keybd is;
This kind of keyboard uses key combination of its FEWER keys
to generate characters (or even syllables or words). The
name "chorded" is used synonymously with instruments like
the guitar wher
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Mike Jeays wrote:
I saw a demo of a device about 30 years ago that you held in one hand.
It had about five buttons positioned under your fingers, and various
combinations would produce all the regular characters.
Sounds like learning to play the saxophone.
--
Chris Hill
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:24:40 -0600
Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > >
> > > I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an
> > > obstacle than using a QWERTY
The Twiddler 2.1 keyboard is a good example of a chorded keyboard. It became
popular with wearable computers where the user wore a heads-up augmented
reality type display.
Cheers...Fish
28.03.12, 19:25, "Chad Perrin" ":
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On W
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an
> > obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and-peck
> > on a QWERTY keyboa
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:19:54 -0600
> From: Chad Perrin
> Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:05:1
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:05:19PM -1000, Open Slate wrote:
>
> I position a tablet as a consumer device. Web surfing, watching video, a
> little texting. A student slate must support creativity, especially
> writing. At the same time I see the qwerty keyboard as an obstacle, hard to
> learn, impo
http://openslate.org/
On Mar 27, 2012 9:46 AM, "Gary Kline" wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:28:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:28:50 +1000
> From: Da Rock
> Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
> To: Chuck Swiger
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
> O
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:54:03AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:48:34 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking of mentioning the Happy Hacking keyboard, but I see you
> > beat me to it. I have not used one for more than a few minutes once,
> > though. Does the Fn+ wo
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:48:34 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:37:49AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:21:45 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > how about the eee-701s? they are no mo' but used to have a
> > > 70% of full size keyboard. my eee-900A had All
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:37:49AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:21:45 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > how about the eee-701s? they are no mo' but used to have a
> > 70% of full size keyboard. my eee-900A had All the std
> > keys. do we really need the F[n] keys?
> >
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:37:49AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:37:49 +0200
> From: Polytropon
> Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
> To: Gary Kline
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2)
>
>
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:21:45 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> how about the eee-701s? they are no mo' but used to have a
> 70% of full size keyboard. my eee-900A had All the std
> keys. do we really need the F[n] keys?
>
>
> anyway, if not a tiny kybd, maybe a small one.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:26:29PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:26:29 -0700
> From: Chuck Swiger
> Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
> To: Gary Kline
> Cc: FreeBSD -
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084)
>
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Gary Kline wrot
27, 2012 9:46 AM, "Gary Kline" wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:28:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:28:50 +1000
From: Da Rock
Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
To: Chuck Swiger
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
On 03/27/12 09:32, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Mar 26,
when enough people will get
interested.
On Mar 27, 2012 9:46 AM, "Gary Kline" wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:28:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:28:50 +1000
> From: Da Rock
> Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
> To: Chuck Swiger
> Cc: freebsd-questions@
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:28:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:28:50 +1000
> From: Da Rock
> Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
> To: Chuck Swiger
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
> On 03/27/12 09:32, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:0
On 03/27/12 09:32, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Da Rock wrote:
To explain the major hurdle in porting to a tablet, you'd need to probably find
an alternative windowing solution then Xorg (low memory, especially in
vivaldi)- I'm not 100% sure what iOS and Android use.
iOS u
On 03/27/12 09:29, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:07:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote:
I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if
there were people in the community with an interest in working on this
project, and migh
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:07:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> >I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if
> >there were people in the community with an interest in working on this
> >project, and might actually be a fairly logi
On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:21:51PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Considering that FreeBS positions itself 'primrily' as a _server_ OS,
I would suggest that it is 'unlikely'.
I suppose iXsystems and the PC-BSD project might be a place to send out
feelers as we
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:21:51PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> Considering that FreeBS positions itself 'primrily' as a _server_ OS,
> I would suggest that it is 'unlikely'.
I suppose iXsystems and the PC-BSD project might be a place to send out
feelers as well, being more interested in end-
On 03/26/12 09:39, Jerome Herman wrote:
On 26/03/2012 01:29, Da Rock wrote:
On 03/26/12 06:49, Skippy 311 wrote:
With a large portion of the open source community looking towards the
Vivaldi Tablet as the push for mobile linux,
The site reminds me of someone organising a large party and no one
Jerome Herman wrote:
> On 26/03/2012 01:29, Da Rock wrote:
> > On 03/26/12 06:49, Skippy 311 wrote:
> >> With a large portion of the open source community looking towards the
> >> Vivaldi Tablet as the push for mobile linux,
> > The site reminds me of someone or
On 26/03/2012 01:29, Da Rock wrote:
On 03/26/12 06:49, Skippy 311 wrote:
With a large portion of the open source community looking towards the
Vivaldi Tablet as the push for mobile linux,
The site reminds me of someone organising a large party and no one
showing up :)
Indeed, I felt very
On 03/26/12 06:49, Skippy 311 wrote:
With a large portion of the open source community looking towards the
Vivaldi Tablet as the push for mobile linux,
The site reminds me of someone organising a large party and no one
showing up :)
I was curious if there was any
plans to make an official push
With a large portion of the open source community looking towards the
Vivaldi Tablet as the push for mobile linux, I was curious if there was any
plans to make an official push to put something together for this tablet.
It is alot to ask from FreeBSD, but to put it bluntly, the more this tablet
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