Re: 2007.11 snapshot available
What if you could tilt the Neo to switch keyboards instead. Or, perhaps, instead of multi-tap you tilt and press 2 to get B instead of hold horizontal and tap 2 to get A. It seems that the accelerometers could be used to make the keyboard easier to use. Now that I am typing perhaps the coolest, would be to have something like a full qwerty with keys that are too big to fit the whole keyboard on the screen, but you tilt it to access the off-screen ones (you tilt left and the keyboard slides over so that you can get to the L key). Just some thoughts. Joe Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote: Wiadomość napisana w dniu Dec 5, 2007, o godz 10:14 AM, przez Thomas Wood: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 09:20 +0100, Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote: For me it's also finger-usable keyboard - just like the one in Qtopia. With that you can operate your phone without stylus (in most cases). Chris has worked on a multi-tap input method: http://chrislord.net/blog/Software/multitap-pad.enlighten That's wonderful news! What I also like in Qtopia's keyboard is ability to switch between number, symbol and letters keyboard by moving you finger down or up on keyboard. Obviously T9 will not be implemented due to patent issues. I will ask him if the source is available anywhere. T9 is not necessary important (i.e. I do not use english on my phone so probably I would need to hack it to include polish T9 database). It is useful in SMSes but not on writing URLs or console ;) cayco ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Joseph J. McCarthy, Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering University of Pittsburgh 1249 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261 Ph. 412-624-7362; Fax 412-624-9639 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://granular.che.pitt.edu ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Example of accelerometers utility
Not to cross-post in threads, but I was just throwing some ideas on using tilting to make keyboards easier in the snapshot thread. Anyone have any other ideas along this line? I would hate to have to carry a stylus when there is nowhere to put it... Joe Stroller wrote: On 4 Dec 2007, at 09:58, Al Johnson wrote: Monday 03 December 2007, Stroller wrote: On 2 Dec 2007, at 15:42, Steven Le Roux wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWc-j4Xs5_w I _love_ the ball-bearing inbox and the way that a message from your g/f might have a different timbre from one from your bank. That feels VERY innovative to me, and more than compensates for the stupid name (Shroogle? WTF?) and the dull video. In a fair chunk of Scotland, including Glasgow where the code was written, shoogle means shake. Giving the phone a shoogle to find out if you had any messages would make perfect sense. I say this as an englishman who occasionally travels north of the border, so the details may be wrong :-) Ah! I'm enlightened! They should've had a sassy Glaswegian explaining this at the beginning of the video: Gie' it a shoogle, ken! Stroller. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Joseph J. McCarthy, Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering University of Pittsburgh 1249 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261 Ph. 412-624-7362; Fax 412-624-9639 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://granular.che.pitt.edu ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Built in PIM app source?
I know that I will run GPE PIM apps on mine, but that is just because I helped write them ;) Joe PS. I hope whoever has/gets the answer to the stock PIM apps will post to the list since I would be interested in knowing if they plan on starting from scratch or contributing to/adapting an existing set (like GPE stuff). On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:36 -0600, el jefe delito wrote: Open source, yes. What they are, or where, I have no idea. Try asking in the freenode.net/#openmoko IRC room if no one else has info to give you. On 1/18/07, Mark McClellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will the 'included by default' PIM apps. calendar, address book and task lists be open sourced? If so I'd like to get a look at them. I have some specific ideas for improvement that I was about to try out using opie for use on my zaurus. But i'd like to take a shot at an openmoko app first if possible. Mark ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- be seeing you. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
