This is great - and might be what's needed to convince me to move from my now-ancient QTE 4.4.3 to the latest and greatest!
Thanks to everyone for all the hard work on this - it's clear that Nokia desupporting QTE was the best thing that could happen to the FR. Warren On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Franky Van Liedekerke <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:22 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> I've already build a new image with this (not online yet, since I'm > >>> setting it up on a new space). A visual hint for prediciveness would > >>> be nice, but I leave that up to you :-) > >> > >> btw, I also added code for a backspace key. I *know* that you can slide > >> to the left for backspace, but if you want to delete an entire > >> sentence (or just 10 letters), this becomes ridiculous. Therefore: the > >> backspace key is to be found in the same group as the return key. > >> I've updated the current image with it. > > > > you can select the text you want to cancel and leftslide, but it's very > > unconfortable. > > true, even more because there's no visual feedback for selection (I > think, or I never succeeded into selecting naything yet) > > >> Now just some buttons to quickly go from letters to ciphers and to the > >> sentence-characters (".","?", etc...). Instead of always needing to > >> slide up and down ... There's place for at least 3 extra signs on the > >> letters screen, I would use them for "uppercase" (and in the uppercase > >> version: "lowercase"), "numbers" and "sentence-characters". This would > >> work more reliable and quicker than the basic sliding ... > > > > we could use the other three diagonals. I think it's better then filling > > the keyboard with more buttons, or it will end up like matchbox keyboard. > > I understand the concern, but when you type in a sentence (or multiple > sentences) and you need punctuation characters, you're gonna need a > lot of sliding ... so I would bring the most used keyboards under 3 > buttons as well. I'll try it, and if it clutters too much, I'll remove > it again. I can always leave the code in, and just disable it in the > layout.conf file ... > For the buttons, any suggestions? I can take any html code ... see > http://cityofstrife.net/hexcodes.html. For uppercase/lowercase, I'll > use an "fat arrow" up/down (x21E7 and x21E9), but what to use for > letter symbol, special char symbol and cipher symbol? > In the letters keyboards, I'll add: up/down, special char, ciphers > In the special char keyboard, I'll add: letters (lowercase), ciphers > In the ciphers keyboard, I'll add: letters (lowercase), special chars > > Franky > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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