On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:50 +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: > > Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look > > close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special > > Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen... > > > purpose :-) Hopefully, You soon learn where the keys are. > > Which gives rise to the question of how to best arrange them... >
I have been thinking along very similar lines to this idea, except that I have been envisioning this as a stylus application. However I think it makes a lot of sense to have as an input method for both finger and stylus. From a stylus point of view it makes sense to treat the centre as a neutral or home position with letters being determined by the subsequent movements you make* (as drag vectors). This way you would not need to lift the stylus off the screen** -- movement would be relative to the position of the stylus at the end of the last letter. I think you could write very fast like this. *a hexagon arrangement would give you all the alphabet + common punctuation in unique combinations of two strokes. (Modifier keys/areas could be added for more). This would be very quick and easy to learn. ** Unless you were getting close to the edge -- but since movement would be relative you could just pick it up and re-center it. > > If you use drag vectors instead of actual taps on the buttons, you might get > away with very short drags, really. > Agreed treating it as vectors rather than as an absolute position makes it much more flexible. Paul M -- "There are no innocent bystanders, what were they doing there in the first place?" William S. Burroughs _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community