On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:36:12 +0200 Jelle De Loecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Interesting! > But "who" is openmoko? What group of persons decide this? And surely > they must know about this? this has been beaten to death on the community list already :) i am just trying to give people what they are saying they want - as best i can. > If not, and you want me to vent my frustration with the qpe keyboard > somewhere else, just give me an address! > I've made a list! :) hahahahaha! :) seriously - right now asu is still young. it wont be perfect. it's missing a lot. i have actually now got FSO building myself and am already sending patches to mickey for the FSO build that does use the illume keyboard. i intend to continue to support FSO over the long term and have a reasonable go at the gui end of things there while mickey & gang really hammer at the back end. > I just hope this doesn't turn into something like the > "gimp-in-one-window" struggle... > > Here's hoping for a good solution! if you ask me... try FSO. the phone bits are not that mature - but it's definitely got a future going for it. :) > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) schreef: > > On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:53:47 +0200 Jelle De Loecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > babbled: > > > > the whole keyboard thing is a mess right now. illume has one - that > > seemingly people want. qpe has one that om wants. illume provides a gui > > config to turn it's keyboard on and off or launch a 3rd party vkbd app and > > use that. this gui is turned off by om and pretty much permanently > > inaccessible. qpe doesn't provide any way to say "yes" or "no" to getting > > its keyboard up. so basically qpe is playing the game of "take my keyboard > > or dont use qpe" right now, and illume is playing the game of "do what you > > want - i have config for that", but that game is pretty much inaccessible. > > > > there is a dbus call you can use to fiddle with some config but that > > incantation needs a dbus session key (so you'll need to steal it from a > > running session or do this with a terminal on the FR itself), but this > > still will only affect illume and do nothing about qpe. > > > > this all needs to be resolved and so it'll be a mess until it's cleared up. > > the wiki is not really correct - it's well behind any development and it's > > not really understanding how the keyboard works, but that has been changing > > rapidly > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
