might be a stupid question, but any plans on making a transparent large "normal" keyboard? btw: it seems great!
y On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:49 PM, kimaidou <[email protected]> wrote: > Waou, THIS IS GREAT ! I am very happy to find someone with the same will, > but skilled ! For me, qwo is also the fastest keyboard, and making it > fullscreen + transparent will make it the killer keyboard. Congratulation > for sharing your method. I will try it asap. > > Kimaidou > > 2009/3/8 Richard Kralovic <[email protected]> >> >> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
