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xtreemneo 2010-11-05 20:30
Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
I am no developer.. is there a way we can implement the portrait mode keyboard from opera browser..
right now am using it to type it.. its good actually than having anything at all..

Though Opera is designed with capacitive screen in mind, it works great with our beloved N900 screen. B)

and for the suggestions, i mean dictionary we can implement the kind in Windows Phone 7.. Which again is just a solution, but can be of anything..

MohammadAG 2010-11-05 20:30
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Opera's closed source.

ear0wax 2010-11-05 20:31
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
This thread is very misleading, I was thinking oh who leaked the source code??

Mentalist Traceur 2010-11-05 20:34
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Yeah, I had a little wonder-if-it's-been-leaked moment, lol. Though given the normal threads on this forum lately, I wasn't getting my hopes up too much.

xtreemneo 2010-11-05 20:36
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 864647)
Opera's closed source.
Ho.. then.. cant we develop something of same kind, like if they who work for salary can develop (apple, Microsoft), why cant we(well.. My mighty open developers) who work for passion can do it?

this N900 keyboard we have is a joke..

stlpaul 2010-11-05 20:42
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Check out:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=702588
https://danielwould.wordpress.com/20...rd-for-witter/

for starters :P

Mentalist Traceur 2010-11-05 20:45
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Because people are too lazy, or too busy, to learn how to code, and those in this community who DO know how to develop have better things to do.

*Sigh* My offer to throw large amounts of money (well, probably under a hundred dollars, and I hope others would contribute, but still, I wouldn't mind at this point) to anyone who knows Hildon well enough to pickup the system-wide portrait keyboard - http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=55371 - and finish it to a workable state with both QWERTY and T9-like input (not necessarily predictive or error correcting, just reasonably usable) still stands.

xtreemneo 2010-11-05 20:50
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur (Post 864669)
Because people are too lazy, or too busy, to learn how to code, and those in this community who DO know how to develop have better things to do.

*Sigh* My offer to throw large amounts of money (well, probably under a hundred dollars, and I hope others would contribute, but still, I wouldn't mind at this point) to anyone who knows Hildon well enough to pickup the system-wide portrait keyboard - http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=55371 - and finish it to a workable state with both QWERTY and T9-like input (not necessarily predictive or error correcting, just reasonably usable) still stands.
Learing Code developing is a complete task for me.. I just can't because am a Management student.. who would like to contribute to open community.. and thinks that technology is a basic right for common people and should not be limited to the upper cream layer of the community..

well,, I dunno what to say other than this, as i think most people think in the same way..

WereCatf 2010-11-05 20:56
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur (Post 864669)
Because people are too lazy
Blaming laziness for people not willing to develop something for someone who they don't even know sounds not only ignorant but selfish, too; usually the reason people don't do the thing someone random wants them to do is one of the following reasons: better things to do, no skills to do it, or no time for it.

xtreemneo 2010-11-05 21:05
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by WereCatf (Post 864688)
better things to do, no skills to do it, or no time for it.

Well, what if we unite all the open source community and work towards the common goal of bringing technology to everyone..

Even nokia is getting into this just to make money which will definetly be the ultimate reason for any corporate.. what if we change it..

Mentalist Traceur 2010-11-05 21:07
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
I did say too lazy or busy - almost everyone has some laziness in them. Of course, there's the fact that I mean laziness very broadly in that context. Not necessarily as a character flaw of not being willing to do work, but also as any not-feeling-like-it that isn't caused by having higher-priority things to do. (Like right now, me browsing talk.maemo.org instead of doing the above learning how to improve the system-wide portrait keyboard, is, by my definition, somewhat lazy.)

And yes, I DO count myself as among those two lazy to learn how to code. Yes, there are times when I am also too busy, but a good enough chunk of it is laziness.

Frankly, I don't get how "better things to do, no skills to do it, or no time for it" is much different from "too lazy or too busy, or [in the case of those who can develop stuff like this] have better things to do". By all means, please explain to me how the hell "no time to do it" isn't similar enough to "too busy", or how "better things to do" isn't exactly the same as, well, "have better things to do?

The only remotely valid claim is against your interpretation of me using the word "lazy", but in context, and given the way I elaborated on my definition of lazy as I meant it above, "too lazy [to learn how to do it]" and "no skills to do it" are similar enough. Yes, your way of wording it is better, I'll admit. But I think that if you have no skills to do it, and actually want it to happen, you're either too busy/distracted/whatever because of other things that are higher priority to you (hence the "too busy" part) or aren't motivated or interested in acquiring that skill, even though you have the ability and time to (which, in context, fits under "too lazy" in my eyes).

So congrats. You took one word out of context due to whatever associations you felt like taking offence to there, failed to realize that I was more than happy to put myself in that category, and then basically stated what I said in different words.

ossipena 2010-11-05 21:09
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
this is no go. The kb is so tightly integrated to opera that there is no point even trying to separate the kb from other code.
This statement came from guys who compiled opera in the first place.

xtreemneo 2010-11-05 21:11
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur (Post 864707)
I did say too lazy or busy - almost everyone has some laziness in them. Of course, there's the fact that I mean laziness very broadly in that context. Not necessarily as a character flaw of not being willing to do work, but also as any not-feeling-like-it that isn't caused by having higher-priority things to do. (Like right now, me browsing talk.maemo.org instead of doing the above learning how to improve the system-wide portrait keyboard, is, by my definition, somewhat lazy.)

And yes, I DO count myself as among those two lazy to learn how to code. Yes, there are times when I am also too busy, but a good enough chunk of it is laziness.

Frankly, I don't get how "better things to do, no skills to do it, or no time for it" is much different from "too lazy or too busy, or [in the case of those who can develop stuff like this] have better things to do". By all means, please explain to me how the hell "no time to do it" isn't similar enough to "too busy", or how "better things to do" isn't exactly the same as, well, "have better things to do?

The only remotely valid claim is against your interpretation of me using the word "lazy", but in context, and given the way I elaborated on my definition of lazy as I meant it above, "too lazy [to learn how to do it]" and "no skills to do it" are similar enough. Yes, your way of wording it is better, I'll admit. But I think that if you have no skills to do it, and actually want it to happen, you're either too busy/distracted/whatever because of other things that are higher priority to you (hence the "too busy" part) or aren't motivated or interested in acquiring that skill, even though you have the ability and time to (which, in context, fits under "too lazy" in my eyes).

So congrats. You took one word out of context due to whatever associations you felt like taking offence to there, failed to realize that I was more than happy to put myself in that category, and then basically stated what I said in different words.
Even am too lazy to read this completely.. i think the feeling is what you are talking about..

xtreemneo 2010-11-05 21:13
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ossipena (Post 864708)
this is no go. The kb is so tightly integrated to opera that there is no point even trying to separate the kb from other code.
This statement came from guys who compiled opera in the first place.
Ho, i just didn't know that.. Just googled up..

shockgiga 2010-11-09 10:06
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
how about the nitdroid portrait keyboard? is it closed source too?
or is there a way to recycle some code from the landscape onscreen qwerty?

ossipena 2010-11-09 11:00
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by shockgiga (Post 867881)
how about the nitdroid portrait keyboard? is it closed source too?
or is there a way to recycle some code from the landscape onscreen qwerty?
you really should use powersearch. if something doesn't exist in active topics, it doesn't mean that it wont exist at all....

richwhite 2010-11-09 11:11
Re: Portrait mode keyboard for N900 from OPERA SOURCE CODE!
 
I'd just like to see system wide portrait keyboard picked up again, i think if the VertSMS or FastSMS picked it up to continue development it would be win-win. The base stuff all seems to be in place, and IMO system-wide is much, much better. What's the point of a portrait browser if you have to revert to landscape to enter a web address?

Like Mentalist Traceur, I would be more than happy to donate towards it.


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