On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Pietro Abate wrote: > Hello everybody, > I just want to put forward a couple of usability suggestions. > > [Snip first suggestion about scrolling] > > Another small suggestion is about the keyboard (in general, any > keyboard). Why do have by default the smallest keyboard in the world, > when we could have much bigger keys if we rotate the phone in landscape > mode ? > > I'm thinking when I write an sms. The default should be landscape. Yes, > maybe you might need to use to hands instead of one, but I don't believe > you are able to type an sms with the current keyboard just using one > hand anyway. Most of use use the stilo anyway...
The illume keyboard works for me one handed while walking for entering english text such as SMS. The correction capability is _very_ effective if the dictionary is good, and will learn as you enter more text. > On the same note about the pin input. Why do I have to switch to the > numeric keyboard (here I'm talking about om.200x) to input my pin, if > the application already knows the I need the numeric keyboard ? And why > should not be able to use directly the big numeric keyboard used in the > call widget ? The illume keyboard should respond to hinting by the app, and I believe the 2008.x keyboard is supposed to do this too. If the app is missing a hint, or providing the wrong one, report it as a bug. > All in all, I think there should be a number of different keyboard, > specialized for a specific task (call(numeric), sms(landscape), > terminal, sms(predictive), etc ) and each application should be able to > select by default that would be more user friendly for its specific > task. See above for keyboard hints. Apps are free to rotate the screen, and if the provide the hinting then the appropriate keyboard should be used. Personally I do _not_ want the app second-guessing my choice of screen orientation, except possibly by using the accelerometers. > I hope I'm not talking bullshit here. I've been following development > for a while, but I might have missed something important. Like I never > tried parioli... > > thanks for listing :) > pp > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
