On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:24:49 +0100 Chris Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> > "There's nothing worse than having an external keyboard connected and being > > forced to waste screen real estate on something you don;t need." > > Sorry, I missed this - I agree. or any other situation you don't want it... :) > > It's also particularly annoying when a keyboard pops up on the first field > > of a screen covering up the actual field you wanted to fill out, unless the > > keypad provides tab navigation or something. > > The keyboard should only come up when the user explicitly selects an > input entry - of course, this is up to the application to make sure it > doesn't force the keyboard up by auto-focusing an entry. Or up to the > toolkit that it doesn't fire off the X event when an entry isn't focused > explicitly. Not the keyboard, anyway. yup, though in the case of a bug full-window text entry for a note application.. you're going to be pretty stuck for scrolling, selecting text for copy and paste etc., here. :) finger-scroll (drag finger up and down on text entry to scroll) is going to focus it in reality... > > Actually, it was a request at first, it only became a complaint when choice > > was taken away. > > Who took the choice away? (I'm not in charge of OpenMoko or what patches > get accepted of course, so maybe someone did, but I've not been aware of > this?) > > > It only explains that you seemed to think I was saying your keyboard was > > shit or something. We aren't even talking about your keyboard. Carsten has > > provided a mechanism we can use to fix his keyboard when it appears. > > In fairness, it is pretty shit, it was only meant as a starting point > and it's mostly just tying together other peoples' work with string and > masking tape :) But it sounded to me like blame was being attributed > when there was no one/thing at fault? i was the one who removed the buttons/widget/gadget that gives manual control. i did it because i was instructed to do so by management. if people have an issue with losing manual keyboard popup/down control there is the place to take it up. i am just relaying the facts as they stand. -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
