Re: deleting characters on raster's keyboard
On Sunday 15 March 2009, Robin Paulson wrote: ever since i've had my freerunner, i've had problems using raster's keyboard (the one with dictionary lookup). the biggest issues are the swipes for space and backspace - each time i try to do either of them, i generally unintentionally press a letter. deleting one character usually becomes very frustrating, selecting then trying to delete unwanted letters. i assume i'm doing something wrong - is there a technique for doing this well? it's intensely frustrating to use Possibly - it generally works for me, but I have a long history with resistive touchscreens. You need to keep enough pressure for it to be a continuous swipe rather than 2 or more events. The default layout has enough dead space at the sides to start the stroke in, which may help. Alternatively you could add a backspace key to the layout as there is in the terminal keyboard. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: deleting characters on raster's keyboard
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 14:53, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: Possibly - it generally works for me, but I have a long history with resistive touchscreens. You need to keep enough pressure for it to be a continuous swipe rather than 2 or more events. The default layout has enough dead space at the sides to start the stroke in, which may help. Alternatively you could add a backspace key to the layout as there is in the terminal keyboard. I don't have history with touchscreens, but it's working to me too. It's only about keeping enough pressure. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: deleting characters on raster's keyboard
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:34:58 +1300 Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: ever since i've had my freerunner, i've had problems using raster's keyboard (the one with dictionary lookup). the biggest issues are the swipes for space and backspace - each time i try to do either of them, i generally unintentionally press a letter. deleting one character usually becomes very frustrating, selecting then trying to delete unwanted letters. i assume i'm doing something wrong - is there a technique for doing this well? it's intensely frustrating to use it's got to the point where i want to ditch the thing and go back to my hideous panasonic, which despite it's many failings at least it usable for typing cheers install these, they seem more usable to me: http://www.opkg.org/package_144.html http://www.opkg.org/package_106.html http://www.opkg.org/package_101.html Franky ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
deleting characters on raster's keyboard
ever since i've had my freerunner, i've had problems using raster's keyboard (the one with dictionary lookup). the biggest issues are the swipes for space and backspace - each time i try to do either of them, i generally unintentionally press a letter. deleting one character usually becomes very frustrating, selecting then trying to delete unwanted letters. i assume i'm doing something wrong - is there a technique for doing this well? it's intensely frustrating to use it's got to the point where i want to ditch the thing and go back to my hideous panasonic, which despite it's many failings at least it usable for typing cheers ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
