On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Bryan Voss wrote: > Florian Zimmermann wrote: > > > > this ipaq running familiar (or, if you prefer - intimate) and qpe feels > > quite smooth now. there are some bucks to earn before, but i believe > > in qpe as a toy, since toys and fun sell first on the mass market at > > least. the mpeg-player is really cute and there are games like nethack > > which were ported nicely. otoh there are e.g. the todo-list which does > > a great day-to-day job for me and let me use it in an efficient way. > > i just like it and can suggest it to every linux addicted, > > and cause i spent roughly 500$ for it, these 2 cents > > are..yea my last 2 cents ;-) > > > Just out of curiosity, and I hope this isn't considered list clutter, > how's the handwriting recognition under Linux on the IPAQ compared to > WinCE or Palm OS?
this is list clutter, curios ;-) but write recognition isn't a prob anymore, as far as i can tell. there are possibilities: handwriting keyboard (which i prefer) pickboard unicode these one are unique and pickboard is said to be fastest etc. so some say winCE input recog is best. i dunno any of them, im used to 'keyboard' which /is/ fast if you know a bit where the keys are on a normal keyboard and for me it's sometimes faster than typing blindly on a real keyboard, since from the beginning i haven't had any real structure for this 10 finger concepts etc. ;-) but pickboard is really like 't9' a bit, dunno if you know etc., 't9' is here (.de) a standard to type sms (with handy) very efficient and i have no handy w/ t9 but i know it, and i think the pickboard is based on a similar vision... just try it out (http://qpe.sourceforge.net/x86.html), feel free to d/l the qpe on your desktop pc, binaries are all available for this 'simulator'...but you still have to move a 50gramm mouse for it, so perhaps that's not a real feeling in contrast ;-) and if you want to hear (i wanted) that m$ input methods are crap i'd have to agree, the QT input methods are crap as well (they copied from m$ the status bar, the menu, the...all this used to 'this' users, but these features don't feel very perfect from a developers point of view) hear some discussion from a congress(http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/wos2/videos.html) i visited and especially listen to this (http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/wos2/topics-e.html#swculture) cheers, flo
