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jackburton	2012-10-20 , 13:48
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Originally Posted by nicolai

Some observations and results from
Need some help, please create some mockups for portrait mode
keyboard, but notice the menu/space/enter buttons on the bottom
are fixed and not defined by the keyboard layout xml. The
shift and backspace use a fixed size icon of 72x70 pixels.

How about this for a mock-up?

It's from an old touch keyboard I used to use in my Palm days called Mini-Keyboard. It was surprisingly effective with the diamonds for keys vs trying to fit everything in rectangular buttons.

In fact, I tried it on GarnetVM on my N900 and I can type very quickly there in portrait mode.

Palm Mini keyboard Garnet N900 by brander snaxe, on Flickr

I had planned to try to learn QML by building a version of this and calling it manually in my apps (similar to how Opera does it), but if it could be available system-wide, that would obviously be better.

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