Why not? I do it on a nokia n800. I don't use it a massive amount but it is fairly usable and that's also only 480px high (in freerunner landscape, in freerunner portrait it's 640px high).
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Robert Taylor wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: >> 2008/6/9 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> 2008/6/9 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>>> an 80x24 terminal is possible to make it readable @ qvga - if we allow >>>> scrolling. (and possible in landscape with an ultra-tiny 4-pixel wide font >>>> - >>>> possible (3 pixels for text, 1 for space). not very nice though. >>>> >>> That is unusable. I'm sorry, I will not force myself to use that. I >>> will buy something else. Using the terminal on a remote machine with a >>> 4 pixels font is possibile like it is possible to eat cockroaches for >>> lunch everyday. There are some 'can get by' that I will not force >>> myself to get by with. >>> >> >> The same with having to flip between right/left panes: it turns a >> half-second operation into a five-second one, and it taxes the brain >> at the same time. >> >> Moreover, this has to fit a keyboard along with anything else. The >> keyboard itself has very minimal needs in terms of resolution, but it >> steals about a third of the screen in portrait mode, more in landscape >> -- 640x480 is probably a bare minimum. You'd be getting 200 by 240 >> usable space with qvga. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > The keyboard and and landscape mode are very important I think. > > If you are going to be doing ssh of any king you will need a physical > keyboard (bluetooth or a foldout of some kind in a future model) and you > will need to be able rotate the screen to landscape mode to get decent > resolution. > > Now that qt is on x, landscape mode should be easily possible with > xrandr so the last issue is a kb as in landscape mode its a certainty > that you wont be able to use an onscreen kb with a stylus and ssh at the > same time. > > - Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community