Re: Landscape keyboard
Interesting idea. There are some problems I see with it: -The screen is very small so typing with two thumbs and trying to see what you type gets difficult. -When you type with two fingers, you happen to touch the screen with both at once sometimes and with our resistive touchscreen that registers a touch somewhere between the two touchpoints. Probably not that much of a problem, though, because you get used to avoiding this. I think it's something that should be tried, especially for a number pad. For a full sized keyboard, the buttons get too small for thumbs. I think the solution for full text input is one-finger-sliding. (Quickwriting) Ortwin On 6/9/08, Steven Milburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...The keyboard itself has very minimal needs in terms of resolution, but it steals about a third of the screen in portrait mode, more in landscape -- 640x480 is probably a bare minimum. Chris's comment about the keyboard in landscape mode popped an image into my head. Maybe it's been mentioned already, but I don't recall. The keyboard for landscape mode could be split in two and have half on the right, and half on the left. I think that may make it more suitable for thumb typing and take less area away. Someone will probably ask me to mock it up, but I'm a HW guy, so you really don't want me to try :) --Steve M ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Landscape keyboard
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...The keyboard itself has very minimal needs in terms of resolution, but it steals about a third of the screen in portrait mode, more in landscape -- 640x480 is probably a bare minimum. Chris's comment about the keyboard in landscape mode popped an image into my head. Maybe it's been mentioned already, but I don't recall. The keyboard for landscape mode could be split in two and have half on the right, and half on the left. I think that may make it more suitable for thumb typing and take less area away. Someone will probably ask me to mock it up, but I'm a HW guy, so you really don't want me to try :) --Steve M ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Landscape keyboard
I think it's a great idea. Kin to the old ergonomic keyboards. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Steven Milburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...The keyboard itself has very minimal needs in terms of resolution, but it steals about a third of the screen in portrait mode, more in landscape -- 640x480 is probably a bare minimum. Chris's comment about the keyboard in landscape mode popped an image into my head. Maybe it's been mentioned already, but I don't recall. The keyboard for landscape mode could be split in two and have half on the right, and half on the left. I think that may make it more suitable for thumb typing and take less area away. Someone will probably ask me to mock it up, but I'm a HW guy, so you really don't want me to try :) --Steve M ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
