QWERTY 5 row keyaboard ON-SCREEN
 

Hi there.
The N900 onscreen keyboard has the stupidiest layout ever made.
Such a waste of space!
The English layout is somewhat usable exept for numbers, but aplhabets with >30 symbols are almost completely unusable.

Both layout are not usable when we talk entering passwords since decent passwords have at least digits and rather often - special characters.

Is there a way to get a standart 5 row layoit for English and international with all characters on one screen?
Does anyone develop anything like this?

Thanks for reading.

Re: QWERTY 5 row keyaboard ON-SCREEN
 

I started to create a 5 row key virtual keyboard but got bogged down with work and other projects so I never really got too far.

if someone could point in me in the right direction in terms of which code to look at to alter the current layout I could probably get it down quicker.

One day I opened visual studio and did a quick layout. Here's what it looked like.

Re: QWERTY 5 row keyaboard ON-SCREEN
 

Actually, there's quite a decent 5 row keyaboard for the Device-that-must-not-be-named.
Here're some screenies:
http://iphonehelp.in/2009/02/23/5-ro...one-via-cydia/

the top row exact exactly like on a standart desktop. I don't know why Nokia expects me to change 25years+ typing skills for no obvious reason with a keyboard like that.

As for international, it should be almost the same, but bearing more buttons (symbols) - for Cyrillic.

And digits are a must in a decent keyboard. I like the spacy design of your example - the gaps should help avoid mistypes. But please add the top row.

Re: QWERTY 5 row keyaboard ON-SCREEN
 

And the efforts needed to switch between international layouts... probably the developing team just doesn't use the feature. :)

switching should be on the same panel as the symbols

Re: QWERTY 5 row keyaboard ON-SCREEN
 

There is a maemo.org Brainstorm ticket to provide other keyboard layouts, feel free to vote for it.

Re: QWERTY 5 row keyaboard ON-SCREEN
 

Well, the N900 onscreen keyboard works fine with me, I guess it is just user preference and of course you will get use to it later. I love the slideout keyboard too.

Well, if other option is available, not bad too.

Re: QWERTY 5 row keyaboard ON-SCREEN
 

I will be happy if there is a layout such as HTC layout