Hello,
After looking at the wiki's whiteboard page for the onscreen keyboard, I
noticed
some options and features to improve what was already suggested.
1) The wiki mentions Chinese/Japanese handwriting recognition, and mentions
Cell-Writer as an already existing technology. But there are several other
open
source projects trying to bring handwritten Chinese to Linux currently:
a) Tomoe http://tomoe.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/en/blog/index.rb
b) Tegaki http://www.tegaki.org/
c) Zinnia http://zinnia.sourceforge.net/
2) Maybe you could integrate a number-row directly into the normal alphabet
keyboard, like HP's Touchpad does their keyboard:
http://www.popherald.com/Post-photos/april-11/hp%2Btouchpad%2Bvirtual%2Bkeyboard.jpg
That would make entering passwords and whatnot much easier. It would be great
if Gnome-shell can make the keyboard smart, like the iPad, so that it can
auto-detect what type of keyboard options to bring up based on what type of
text
field was clicked.
3) Finally, the current location of the messaging area will conflict with an
onscreen keyboard, unless the messaging area rides up the screen with the
keyboard as is slides onscreen. I saw elsewhere where someone mentioned its
current location was a problem for touchscreens, because there was no way to
activate it absent a mouse. Would a redesign of that feature be off the table?
It does not make total sense that the user's online status is controlled in the
upper right hand corner, but messaging is in the lower right hand corner. Why
not integrate them both in the upper right?
Let me end this email by saying what a wonderful job everyone did developing
Gnome 3! It is absolutely gorgeous, and is definitely me new preferred
desktop!
Regards,
Brian Fleeger
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