On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 20:27, Petr Vanek <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniele, finally i was able to test the self rotating input method. It > is something that i thought i would really like. Here are some > observations: >
How did you do that? With 2.6.32.17 kernel rotation goes WSOD... > the keyboard is greatly usable with this method, as it correctly > spreads over the whole width of the screen. > Actually landscape keyboard has a separated theme file :-) > all e based application do cause the keyboard to appear > That's because of the input method module. > AUX switches the kbd off if needed > This is managed by the wm: on aux press, if the keyboard is open, it closes it, otherwise it will close the active window. > rotation takes not too long really, but it becomes annoying to wait for > it :) i think the whole wm restarts at that moment Actually it doesn't. The wm waits for 500 ms to activate the keyboard, because i noticed that some windows (e.g. new message window in shr phoneui) if they are resized too early they get scrambled. Actually in landscape mode i should rotate, then wait 500ms then activate keyboard. Perhaps a smaller delay would work too. > on some occasions i would need only to edit -> choose something from a > hoversel->edit next field. Of course, this sequence causes me to go > landscape->portrait->landscape. Not sure what the solution might be... > perhaps AUX would kill kbd but screen would stay rotated, next AUX > press would bring back the portrait mode? As no other method switches > the kbd off anyways, this could perhaps be a working solution... I know... I think the UI should be redesigned for this... For example, IMHO any window should have a scroller widget to scroll anything in the window, so even if there is space-occupying window the user is able to scroll the window contents. Besides, your idea is really nice, i'll think about it :-) > I like, now will test the same but with omnewrotate, to observe the > difference of being autorotated by input method versus choosing by me > by turning the phone. > It would also be cool to rotate the keyboard on accelerometer signal ;-) Thanks for your useful feedback -- daniele_athome _______________________________________________ Shr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
