I don't really know what it's called (the bar at the bottom that shows whether the input is uppercase, numbers, etc.), but it would be great if someone could make a program to replace nokia's version that takes up quite a bit of the screen when using the keyboard on the n810.

I wonder if there is some way to monitor the key presses and use that information to show what state (numbers, letters, uppercase) the keyboard input is going to be in? The replacement program could use the same indications as nokia provided (Fn, Abc, et.), but have it as an "overlay" to whatever is currently on the screen, with no bar.

I have no idea how to do this (or even if it's been done), and this may be impossible (somehow locked away in a closed source blob), but I figured I'd ask anyway.