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

I dont understand people's want for a qwerty keyboard. Have you slid open your N900's?!

A T9 input method would be perfect similar to that on 5th edition phones like the 5800.

Thanks for all your hard work.

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

Well for one, I happen to find QWERTY much faster, than T9. T9 is damn slow, I don't want to have that option ever again. Yes, I really can't stand it.

And yes, I have opened my keyboard. I though, for one, can't write with keyboard open in portrait-position. I also prefer using the device with one hand only (one holding, one typing) and that usually ends up in portrait, not in landscape. Landscape is good, but even when I'm browsing the net, I'm using Opera Mobile with portrait.

Just my opinion though.

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

The internal error is fine. That is xTerm crashing after executing the killall command.

When it crashses it means its switched them. Make sure you are pressing the correct app?

Not tyring to sound lyk im underminding ur ability or anything just tryng to figure out everything to see if I can help ya out :)

Xterm opens soo quickly on mine i barely see it open. Just ends up in the multitasking viewer if I have apps open when i execute the command..

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

It probably takes the killall function seriously as in. Because xterminal can be inutted text into it causes it to crash as the keyboard switches duing the restart of the hildon-input-method??

Just a thought :)

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

ive been using t9 for years and except for writing web addresses and such i can honestly say that i can write faster with t9 than any qwerty keyboard so +1 for t9 :)

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

I prefer a hard keyboard, I always make typos with soft keyboards. But why not have both T9 and Qwerty?

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

yep let s have both . . t9 some time can be very helpful.
finally is working very well :-)

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

Yes. Have you tried typing on the thumboard with one hand while holding the phone portraitly? It works ok left-handed, not so much righthanded. ;)


For those of us unused to phone-typing large quantities of text, even T9 is awkward -- I don't care if it's qwerty specifically, but one button, one character for at least alpha (and preferably numeric and common punctuation) is the way my brain is trained. Why would I want to retrain with T9 for a virtual keyboard, where I don't even get the benefit of touch-typing? (Yes, I do have a certain admiration for those who can pound out SMSes with one hand while barely glancing at the phone, even though I can't myself.)

And I'll admit, silly as it is, I also like stealing all the features from competing platforms for showing off.

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

i for one like T9 with QW-ER-TY check the BB PEARL and E55

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

TBH T9 has saved me soo much time when im in situations where i need to send a text quickly and only have one hand free.

eg. when im on the train and am holding onto the railings or even walking down the street. I can almost text without even focusing on the screen meaning i dont bump into people :p