Radek Polak <[email protected]> writes: > Any other ideas for nice and usable keyboards?
I'm wondering about dasher, controlled by slight tilt movements, which would be detected by the accelerometer and/or gyroscope. Dasher already runs on the GTA04 with finger/stylus control, but there are two problems with that: it needs two hands, and for right handed people the finger/stylus hides a significant section of the letters appearing from the right. With tilt movements input could be done with one hand, and the oncoming letters would not be obscured. It needs prototyping to see if it would be really comfortable, so I may try to work on that. AFAICT from some very quick searching, it's been done on a tablet [1] but not on a smartphone yet. [1] http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/dasher/toshtilt/ I think the steps needed for GTA04 are: - finished drivers for the accelerometer and/or gyroscope - a program to take and process driver output and feed inputs into dasher's UDP socket input (like 'ToshTilt' mentioned at [1], but for GTA04) - input method integration so that dasher appears automatically when a text field gets focussed (which can be done by using or modifying the matchbox-keyboard-im code) - dasher UI modifications to hide things that aren't needed (the menu and toolbar) and add finger-friendly controls for what is needed (e.g. completing input and returning to the underlying app) - optionally, UI tweaks to make it fit better in the look of the containing distribution. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
