Ken, I too feel your pain. I had just stated to get things setup, then I decided to update and to my surprise, all applications requiring a keyboard are now useless. I ended up reverting back to the July 21st snapshot for now, but I will try editing the illume theme and rebuilding once I can locate the required tools to edit the themes.
Having a manual keyboard button is an important feature. The automatic keyboard is not going to read my mind and know if I want it visible or not. There may be times that I want the extra screen space to look at something without half the screen taken up as the automatic keyboard suggests or maybe the automatic keyboard isn't 100% bug free with 100% of applications properly implementing support for it. In a perfect world, a system without a manual button might be feasible. However this is far from a perfect world and with an open system like this it is unrealistic to expect 100% of all applications that can/will be used, to work perfectly with the automatic keyboard. Hopefully the order to remove the button will be reversed, as it is sorely missed. -Jacob On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Ken Restivo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:01:24AM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Berger_ > wrote: > > 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 ! > > > > > > I experienced this today too. It rendered my FR useless. Everything I'd > finally gotten working yesterday (VTE, Minimo, tasks app) stopped working > today, and I'm stuck with, essentially, a brick. > > The keyboard doesn't even pop up automatically anymore, and there's no way > to add it. > > Can someone document what hacks are available to bring the Illume keyboard > back, and to manually trigger it with that little "qwerty" button that used > to be there, in case the designers decide they don't want users to be able > to type things in anymore? > > Thanks. > > -ken > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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