Re: [Gta04-owner] Perfect on screen keyboard?

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Jerram
Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz writes: Any other ideas for nice and usable keyboards? I'm wondering about dasher, controlled by slight tilt movements, which would be detected by the accelerometer and/or gyroscope. Dasher already runs on the GTA04 with finger/stylus control, but there are two

Re: Perfect on screen keyboard?

2012-03-16 Thread robin
I also like the quickwriting idea lot. looking at their side there is also a layout where you have two of the primary selection boxes side by side. that would fit nicely when you hold the freerunner in landscape mode and would make an input with the thumbs possible. One could even add a row for

Perfect on screen keyboard?

2012-03-15 Thread Radek Polak
Hi, while we are talking about hw keyboard, it would be also nice to discuss software keyboard. My impression is that nobody really tried to make a perfect keyboard. So here is my idea: the has standard qwery layout. The keys are twice as high as wide. Two keys are always grouped in one

Re: Perfect on screen keyboard?

2012-03-15 Thread Georg Drees
Hello, * On Mar 15, 2012 8:42 PM, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: while we are talking about hw keyboard, it would be also nice to discuss software keyboard. [...] Any other ideas for nice and usable keyboards? I very much like the qwo keyboard: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qwo It

Re: Finger Friendly on screen keyboard

2009-02-23 Thread Jorge Chamorro
kris Occhipinti wrote: Does anyone have any feedback on my keyboard? Good things, Bad Things? So far I haven't seen another keyboard that is as easy to use with your fingers, But I haven't really gotten any feedback from others who have used it. Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: Finger Friendly on screen keyboard

2009-02-02 Thread kimaidou
Hi Could you please tell us how to install it on Hackable ? And how to use it as the default keyboard pressing Aux ? In your first mail, you described a opkg installation. Thanks Kimaidou 2009/2/2 kris Occhipinti metalx2...@gmail.com Does anyone have any feedback on my keyboard? Good things,

Re: Finger Friendly on screen keyboard

2009-02-02 Thread kris Occhipinti
Does anyone have any feedback on my keyboard? Good things, Bad Things? So far I haven't seen another keyboard that is as easy to use with your fingers, But I haven't really gotten any feedback from others who have used it. ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: Finger Friendly on screen keyboard

2009-01-26 Thread kris Occhipinti
Not sure what Illume is. But by you're question I'm assuming it starts the keyboard when you click on a text field. I'll have to look into it. In the Hackable1 OS the keyboard is started by an AUX button Press. And, I like this. I hate when the Keyboard pops up when I don't want it too. But if

Finger Friendly on screen keyboard

2009-01-25 Thread kris Occhipinti
A while back I made a finger friendly keyboard for the Freerunner, I tried to make it as finger friendly as possible and use as much screen space for buttons. but since I was using xte to send the keys to applications it didn't work under the Openmoko OS (I was using Debian and Hackable1) But, I

Re: Finger Friendly on screen keyboard

2009-01-25 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Does Illume recognize it? Judging by the way to start it, I would guess not... :\ -- Thanks, The Digital Pioneer ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

New on screen Keyboard for Hackable1 and Debian written in Python

2008-12-24 Thread kris Occhipinti
Hello, I've created a new on screen keyboard for the Freerunner. I designed it for Hackable1. I tried to make it as finger friendly as possible and use as much screen space for buttons. I've only been working on it for one day but it's pretty usable. Like Hackable1, it's still a little ruff

Re: New on screen Keyboard for Hackable1 and Debian written in Python

2008-12-24 Thread Davide Scaini
Interesting! can you provide a screenshot? thanks! d On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:44 PM, kris Occhipinti metalx2...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I've created a new on screen keyboard for the Freerunner. I designed it for Hackable1. I tried to make it as finger friendly as possible and use as much

Re: New on screen Keyboard for Hackable1 and Debian written in Python

2008-12-24 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Here is a link to the script http://www.filmsbykris.com/freerunner-debian/ko-keypad/ko-keypad you need to have xautomation installed (apt-get install xautomation) If can install xautomation on om2008 then this keyboard shouldl work on it aswell Hi I've tried to start it on a FR running

Re: New on screen Keyboard for Hackable1 and Debian written in Python

2008-12-24 Thread kris Occhipinti
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.orgwrote: Here is a link to the script http://www.filmsbykris.com/freerunner-debian/ko-keypad/ko-keypad you need to have xautomation installed (apt-get install xautomation) If can install xautomation on om2008 then this

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread Jay Vaughan
Once upon a time it was possible on a Neo1973 to use a terminal which made Linux functionality available. For that you need not only the occasional slash or special text character, but Esc, Alt, and a set of Ctrl characters. I am still hoping for an old-fashioned qwerty keyboard for that

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread einstein
Hello, i installed the matchbox keyboard, like the wiki here http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Switching_Keyboards the keyboard works quit well in the terminal or in the webbrowser. But i need the keyboard Icon on the top of the display, like the gps, battery or gsm icon. So i can start and stop

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Al Johnson wrote: so, is there a fullblown keyboard (hopefully with up/down and tab, so one can sroll in hitory and use completion)? opkg list | grep keyboard gives only matchbox-strokes which looks nice but is not really functional I found the same as you last

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread arne anka
It works. Where I used to get the multitap-pad I now get the matchbox keyboard. It's not as high so you get to see more of the app, but the keys are smaller so harder to hit without a stylus. It seems to offer a full keyboard, including Esc, Tab, Ctrl, Alt and cursor keys. could you offer

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 06 July 2008, arne anka wrote: It works. Where I used to get the multitap-pad I now get the matchbox keyboard. It's not as high so you get to see more of the app, but the keys are smaller so harder to hit without a stylus. It seems to offer a full keyboard, including Esc, Tab,

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread arne anka
did it too and built openmoko-keyboard. installation went flawlessly, the only trap was the need to reboot. i put the three ipk and a short instruction at http://www.ginguppin.de/node/15 ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 06 July 2008, arne anka wrote: did it too and built openmoko-keyboard. installation went flawlessly, the only trap was the need to reboot. i put the three ipk and a short instruction at http://www.ginguppin.de/node/15 Nice job. Looks like I was wrong about the dependencies :-)

on screen keyboard?

2008-07-05 Thread arne anka
hi, somebody asked thsi already a while ago (but got no answer): is there a package available providing a better keyboard than that included w/ the freerunner, resembling a multi tap phone keyboard? honestly, i can't figure out a rationale for spending effort on implementing such a limited

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 05 July 2008, arne anka wrote: hi, somebody asked thsi already a while ago (but got no answer): is there a package available providing a better keyboard than that included w/ the freerunner, resembling a multi tap phone keyboard? honestly, i can't figure out a rationale for

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-05 Thread Federico Lorenzi
Afaik raster was working on a magic keyboard that had all sorts of cool features. On 7/5/08, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2008, arne anka wrote: hi, somebody asked thsi already a while ago (but got no answer): is there a package available providing a better keyboard

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Federico Lorenzi wrote: Afaik raster was working on a magic keyboard that had all sorts of cool features. I think that's the one in the qtopia-x11 image. I was wondering whether it would work in the gtk image, but haven't tried yet.

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-05 Thread Michael Kluge
Is xvkbd an option? I did not check the dependencies yet. Michael On Saturday 05 July 2008, Federico Lorenzi wrote: Afaik raster was working on a magic keyboard that had all sorts of cool features. I think that's the one in the qtopia-x11 image. I was wondering whether it would

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-05 Thread Jay Vaughan
Afaik raster was working on a magic keyboard that had all sorts of cool features. hope he releases it soon! ; -- Jay Vaughan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-05 Thread Clare
Once upon a time it was possible on a Neo1973 to use a terminal which made Linux functionality available. For that you need not only the occasional slash or special text character, but Esc, Alt, and a set of Ctrl characters. I am still hoping for an old-fashioned qwerty keyboard for that reason.

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-30 Thread Ortwin Regel
which enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg What do you think. Could this be useful on OpenMoko? I think its really inovative usage of on screen keyboard. I could try to implement it on desktop machine and than when I get

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-30 Thread christooss
2008 22:42:41 +0200 christooss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of selected projects in google android is Writing pad which enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg What do you think. Could this be useful on OpenMoko? I think its

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-30 Thread christooss
George Brooke wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:42:41 +0200 christooss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of selected projects in google android is Writing pad which enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg What do you think. Could

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-30 Thread Steven Milburn
You could save quite a bit of room there by getting rid of a SHIFT and the CAPS keys. you might consider something like a double-tap on shift locks it, and a single tap only affects the next character. --Steve On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:30 PM, christooss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-30 Thread Ian Darwin
christooss wrote: Ortwin Regel wrote: Yeah, somewhat, but I think our screen might be a little small for it. I guess it needs to be prototyped. Ortwin http://sudharsh.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/screenshot-1.png Here is a screenshot of one of onscreen keyboard. And I don't think its so

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-30 Thread Ortwin Regel
christooss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of selected projects in google android is Writing pad which enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg What do you think. Could this be useful on OpenMoko? I think its really inovative usage

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-30 Thread christooss
Ortwin Regel wrote: On the actual screen that keyboard is very small. Even if you use a stylus, you need to keep a steady hand. I don't think sliding over fields that small would be comfortable or fast. It would be unusable on a bus/train. Ortwin I made first mockup of onscreen keyboard

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-30 Thread Dan Staley
. And than actual porting. On 5/29/08, George Brooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:42:41 +0200 christooss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of selected projects in google android is Writing pad which enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard http

on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-29 Thread christooss
One of selected projects in google android is Writing pad which enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg What do you think. Could this be useful on OpenMoko? I think its really inovative usage of on screen keyboard. I could try

Re: on screen keyboard enhaced

2008-05-29 Thread George Brooke
On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:42:41 +0200 christooss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of selected projects in google android is Writing pad which enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg What do you think. Could this be useful on OpenMoko