Hello there, Pascal d'Hermilly wrote: > With 2008.12 release, a well working finger-friendly keyboard is the > most critical missing feature for me. > I've made a mockup of a keyboard that I think would make things a lot > easier to type. > http://dhermilly.dk/pascal/openmoko/keyboard%20mockup.png > > I don't have the skills to code this, but please. I really need a good > keyboard to be able to use my openmoko. >
I fully agree that we need a proper finger-friendly keyboard. I'm sure that it is planned, and I can sort-of remember that the Matchbox keyboard has big enough keys to be a lot easier to use than the Illume keyboard. Here are some other keyboard examples: A weird keyboard on M$ Mobile (yech!): http://msmobiles.com/news.php/6630.html Iphone keyboard styled like the Macbook Air (now this looks the business!): http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/02/make-your-iphone-virtual-keyboard-look-like-its-macbook-air.html Blackberry's Iphone keyboard ripoff: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1996 All of them have nice big buttons and share a simple layout. The FR's screen is big enough even in portrait mode to accommodate a keyboard like this. The Illume keyboard, as excellent as it is (thanks Raster!!), is fiddly to use without a stylus. I would like to not have to use a stylus to compose notes/emails/sms. For terminal use (and using VI) a more complete k/b is of course justified, but for everyday use we need a nice finger keyboard. -- Regards, Jan Henkins _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
