Re: some UI and text input thoughts

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Friedt
All of your insight sounds great. Personally, I'm a little bit more interested in the 'swyping' concept - has anyone here used it? I've only seen demonstration videos. I have no time to do this personally, but it would be nice to be able to use T9 input, an on-screen-keyboard, a full terminal-capa

Re: some UI and text input thoughts

2009-01-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:19:52 +0100 Marcos Mezo babbled: > On Thursday 15 January 2009 00:42:49 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:01:20 + Andy Green babbled: > > > > nothing to do with hardware here - all to do with software stack. the fact > > is there is no generic "zoom" c

Re: some UI and text input thoughts

2009-01-14 Thread Marcos Mezo
On Thursday 15 January 2009 00:42:49 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:01:20 + Andy Green babbled: > > nothing to do with hardware here - all to do with software stack. the fact > is there is no generic "zoom" control for apps - and apps have no concept > of one. you also need t

Re: some UI and text input thoughts

2009-01-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:01:20 + Andy Green babbled: nothing to do with hardware here - all to do with software stack. the fact is there is no generic "zoom" control for apps - and apps have no concept of one. you also need to think about where in the stack you sit - if you go to /dev/input...

Re: some UI and text input thoughts

2009-01-14 Thread Yorick Moko
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Christopher Friedt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to write to the list about two things - 1) zooming in the > browser, photo viewer, etc, and 2) 'swiping' instead of typing > > 1) > > Assuming (well, hoping really) that could also apply to the > touch-screen on

Re: some UI and text input thoughts

2009-01-14 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Are there any hardware engineers who can verify whether or not the | touch-screen on the Neo or FR could register or generate motion-based | events? If not, is this something that could be done easily in |