Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:27:25 -0400 Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
2) The ASU software features a qwerty-keyboard. It is switchable between
alphabetics and numerics; unfortunately the gesture needed to do this
(a triangle drawn counter-clockwise from lower left) is a bit hard to
it is? the gesture is just "slide finger up". no triangle :) not sure how you
got the triangle thing :) (place finger at kbd bottom, slide, lift finger)
Ah, the benefits of documentation :-) There was no doc, so I looked at
QTopia's doc, and was mislead for my efforts. Thank you for correcting this.
There is no triangle, and no spoon. There is only the finger, sliding up
and down.
the current version of ASU uses QTopia's input manager, offering what
looks like a predictive style but is actually doing a dictionary
actually - it doesn't - i wrote one from scratch :) the code is ugly - but it
works.
That's impressive! And again, I presumed incorrectly. Sorry.
it does use standard linux dict files though for the dictionary - the
one we ship is an abbreviated one with only 5000 words - but they also have
extended frequency counts. have a dig around the illume package files and see -
it's just a text file. :) it also maintains a user dictionary for personal
words you added in ~/.e/e/ :) same format.
lookup; I find this very distracting compared to a plain do-what-I-type
keyboard, and would welcome an easy way to turn this off
I'd still very much like to see a way to turn it off, so it works the
same for letters as for numbers. It's annoying 90% of the time because
most of the person or street names I need to enter into Contacts are not
going to be listed. I promise not to write my next 850-page book on my
Neo, so word lookup is of limited use. I suspect that Contacts, Todo
and Calendar is the most common use case for most people, and that
writing normal text is the least common for most people.
3) It's easy to accidentally start an application (thus slowing down
what you're trying to really do) while scrolling the home screen in icon
grid mode.
there is an adjustment for this - its in the interaction dialog, yes its ugly -
i know. i keep fiddling with it every now and again to see if i can't make it
behave a bit more like i "intend". :)
Ah, thanks.
4) The Preferences that are in the top slide-down panel's Wrench icon
should presumably be merged with the Preferences App.
currently those are preferences for enlightenment - and thus it has its own
settings dialog/panel like all applications anywhere on any desktop do :)
Logically I agree with you, but for the hypothetical end-user, who
doesn't know that there is such a concept as a window manager, there is
an un-necessarily fine distinction between "what belongs to E (which
applies window behavior to the phone as a whole)" and "what belongs to
the phone as a whole". I think it's going to be confusing.
5) The shutdown dialog does not have a cancel or Back button.
And, it often doesn't actually shutdown.
that may actually go - that's just qtopia's default dialog - the # of app icons
will likely reduce by a lot as we trim out things we don't really need.
Great. Speaking of the app icons, I'd love to see a way to hide ones I'm
not using, and move ones I use frequently to a non-default order (my
five-year-old Blackberry has this feature, for one). This is probably
there and I don't know how, or something Carsten can do with a bit of
EFL code, right? :-)
Thanks again Carsten for the code and the information.
Ian Darwin
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