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Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

lol you're right but nokia aside i love my n900

Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

i just wanna know if theres any news yet about this app?

Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

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Originally Posted by Airtux (Post 820613)

Please i request this: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...trait+keyboard

Thanks!

Of for f*cks sake! If you really don't have anything helpful about the topic to say then just stay quiet, please! I'm fed up having my inbox full of unnecessary notifications about threads.

You can start checking the status of this project by going here, mentioned in the first post.

http://gitorious.org/hildon-portrait-keyboard

Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

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Originally Posted by timwatt (Post 716712)

for what it is worth this is my preferred layout,
features:
1) offset keys for increased press accuracy
2) "." and "," keep the same position
3) "-" doesn't change position.
4) "/" and "\" don't change position.
5) you see a your background plication.
6) key hight is the same as landscape keyboard just width changes.

http://www.jdidesign.com/files-in/ma...keyboard-3.jpg
http://www.jdidesign.com/files-in/ma...keyboard-2.jpg
http://www.jdidesign.com/files-in/ma...keyboard-4.jpg
http://www.jdidesign.com/files-in/ma...keyboard-1.jpg

so.... this is what i see so far a best portrait qwerty keyboard , and i just want to knew status of its development! thx

Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

after watching this video of the n8 I see nokia relay need to work on the UI especially the portrait keyboard.

Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

Great app, I think a cursor would be useful, at least 2 arrows for left/right...
Thanks!

Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

Quote:

Originally Posted by timwatt (Post 831387)

after watching this video of the n8 I see nokia relay need to work on the UI especially the portrait keyboard.

What a useless video

Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

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Originally Posted by strange1712 (Post 831405)

Great app, I think a cursor would be useful, at least 2 arrows for left/right...
Thanks!

Definitely needs arrow keys, a virtual keyboard is virtually *cough* useless without them, if you don't want to use stylus for placing the cursor....
I'm actually waiting desperately for some kind-hearted person (equipped, unlike me, with the necessary programming knowledge) to add arrows to the stock landscape qwerty!
Has nobody else been missing those?

Thank you w00t and frals for starting this off!

Re: [Announce] portrait-keyboard: Portrait-friendly system-wide keyboard

Sorry, I'm not seeing a need for arrow keys. A usefulness, yes, and now that you've brought it up I suppose I can agree, but I feel it's a low priority feature. It does not take that much effort to put the cursor in the desired spot by using just fingers. If I can do it (with reasonable accuracy) on this post while typing from the N900 in the quick-reply box not zoomed in, with my blunt and inconveniently-opposite-of-stylus-like thumbs, I believe that other people can easily learn the skill through just a tiny bit of effort.

That said, I understand the convenience and expedience arrows would add for some people, so I agree.

In the meantime, frals, w00t, eternal, anyone else: How much money would I have to give you to get you to work on this project until it's finished and reasonably usable? I am being reasonably serious here. I feel like getting the N900 to it's full potential is extremely worth it, including paying for it (so long as it's understood that payment is for the service of working on the open-source project, not for the end-result product). Hopefully enough people will join me in this that no one has to spend too much, but we'll see.

So, someone who knows hildon and this keyboard project well enough: throw out a figure. What will it take for you to focus on this project?