Hello, despite some skepticism about having transparent keyboard in illume, I decided to try it. After some work, I got it working. More precisely, I am using the qwo external keyboard (an implementation of quikwriting technique); imho it's great with stylus, and also quite finger-friendly when the keyboard is large enough. I think it's quite usable. As for speed, displaying/hiding the keyboard is quicker than displaying/hiding the default keyboard, since the application window is not resized (which is usually quite slow).
I wrote a small howto about it, it's (together with screenshots) here: http://kedrigern.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/~riso/Openmoko/qwo/ Actually, to get it work, I had to fix some bugs/annoying features of Xglamo. I reported these (together with patches) as ticket #2242 and #2243 at docs.openmoko.org about one week ago. Unfortunately, I got no answer regarding these patches. Would it be possible to accept them to the openembedded repository and close the tickets? Next, I had to force illume not to resize the running application when displaying keyboard, and also not to force the width of the keyboard to be equal to the width of the screen. Currently, I have only very ugly hack to do this and I am not quite sure how to do it right. I am thinking of making illume look for the _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY property on external keyboards, and behave in above-described way if this property is set. Would this be acceptable for including upstream? Greets Richard _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
