What about first building a decent keyboard with normal keys and then dream about triangular keys glory?
Such a triangular keyboard uses lots of space, maybe twice the space of a normal keyboard. That's certainly not useful on the small freerunner screen which is also cramped by the casing frame. It's sad that this community couldn't even manage to build a decent keyboard for the freerunner within one year. Is there even any attempt to make one? rusolis wrote: > > 2009/6/3 Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> > >> but u'll hit dead space (nothing) about 50% more often than the actual >> key >> you >> intended to hit now (as 50% of the area it would have normally used is >> now >> dead >> space). for a physical kbd it might help as u have better tactile feel as >> u >> have >> more edge near the finger, but for a touchscreen - all you do is lose 50% >> of he >> area you had before for hitting keys. (admittedly for mis-types now >> where >> you >> would have hit another key there is less area to hit too). >> >> so you lose more keypresses (you lost 50% of the hit area), but you lost >> mis-hit >> area too. >> >> one way or another - you press, then quickly press next key, but then >> notice >> that the previous key wasn't hit - u still need to backspace and re-enter >> again >> (possibly missing again). you just give up 1 kind of error for another >> kind >> > > I'm amazed how much you guys can theorize about the idea before actually > trying it. > > Is it because of allergy to patents? I bet we could use the general idea > if > we wanted to, without violating the patent. Just change the shape of the > keys or something. > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/a-new-keyboard---discuss-and-critique-tp3016473p3019034.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community