Indeed I fail to see the advantage of having no manual triggering of keyboard. On my desktop PC, I have never dreamt of my keyboard popping out of a drawer when it thinks I should need it...
And this morning, after my daily opkg upgrade... I rebooted ASU and I am stuck, not even able to enter my SIM PIN !! Because... there was no keyboard on the screen ! On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 00:21, Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 21 July 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: >> sorry. "not in the design". it's not specified as a config option. i'm only >> doing what's in the spec as there is much unhappiness if i do otherwise. if >> you REALLY want the button you will have to hack the theme to put it back >> in (as its just a theme element that emits a signal when pressed). > > GRR...defective by design. You've made a fair summary of my feelings on > automated keyboards too. So what does the spec say about when there's another > input device like a bluetooth or USB keyboard? > >> yes automatic keyboard popup is good, but we don't live in a world where we >> can guarantee and force every app to behave perfectly. lots of things are >> "ported" (recompiled) and forcing them to add patches to bring up keyboards >> is just yet another barrier to porting and leaves us with less software :( _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community