On 3/7/07, Florent de Dinechin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wish #1: Extend the current "drag-to-shift" paradigm on the virtual keyboard to 8 directions. Use these to implement accents for accented languages (e+NE for é, e+NW for è, c+SW for ç, etc), and to remove the need for shifting in general. Show the shifted letters in very small colored font in the corners of the keys.
That could get a bit crowded on the small vkb -- how about showing the available tap&drag variants for a key on tap&drag (tap&hold repeats so it would make a weird trigger), using a larger area? What about capital accented letters such as É?
Possibly implement more complex gestures (e + NE then SE for ê, for example, or tilde, etc). Rationale: French (but also Polish, Spanish and other) has a lot of accents and current input method is a pain. Proposed change should be simple to implement, considering that 4 directions are already there. Showing the shifted characters when they are not obvious (i.e. for the symbol keys, not for the letters) will benefit everybody, not only the French :)
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