On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:57:40 +0000 Daniele Ricci <[email protected]> (DR) wrote:
DR> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 20:27, Petr Vanek <[email protected]> wrote: DR> > Daniele, finally i was able to test the self rotating input DR> > method. It is something that i thought i would really like. Here DR> > are some observations: DR> > DR> DR> How did you do that? With 2.6.32.17 kernel rotation goes WSOD... i am using shr-u's 2.6.32.21 :) , it contains recent wsod fixes :) by Gennady. you also need recent (yesterdays) Xserver version that is correcting discrepancy between inout/output (screen rotates but not the touch). simple upgrading shr-u and making sure you are running latest kernel (in my case it got upgraded but didn't switch automatically) should make this user cases usable for you. DR> > rotation takes not too long really, but it becomes annoying to DR> > wait for it :) i think the whole wm restarts at that moment DR> DR> Actually it doesn't. The wm waits for 500 ms to activate the DR> keyboard, because i noticed that some windows (e.g. new message DR> window in shr phoneui) if they are resized too early they get DR> scrambled. Actually in landscape mode i should rotate, then wait DR> 500ms then activate keyboard. Perhaps a smaller delay would work DR> too. we can test, but as we continue below, is not the timing but the workflow... DR> > on some occasions i would need only to edit -> choose something DR> > from a hoversel->edit next field. Of course, this sequence causes DR> > me to go landscape->portrait->landscape. Not sure what the DR> > solution might be... perhaps AUX would kill kbd but screen would DR> > stay rotated, next AUX press would bring back the portrait mode? DR> > As no other method switches the kbd off anyways, this could DR> > perhaps be a working solution... DR> DR> I know... I think the UI should be redesigned for this... For DR> example, IMHO any window should have a scroller widget to scroll DR> anything in the window, so even if there is space-occupying window DR> the user is able to scroll the window contents. DR> Besides, your idea is really nice, i'll think about it :-) yes, in some apps, when you switch to landscape, you cannot see the edit entry anymore, as the app doesn't have scroller... DR> > I like, now will test the same but with omnewrotate, to observe DR> > the difference of being autorotated by input method versus DR> > choosing by me by turning the phone. DR> > DR> DR> It would also be cool to rotate the keyboard on accelerometer DR> signal ;-) omnewrotate is working with latests kernels, but for some reason it either sometimes stops working or it is very slow, have not reported to [Rui] yet... i am not sure... have a feeling rotation is now also in fso so you could be catching it's signals about current orientation? Petr _______________________________________________ Shr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
