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	w00t	2010-06-06 , 22:21
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Originally Posted by BN900

1- Make it QWERTY. I know T9 is closed source as far as I know, so at least make it QWERTY. If you could use the the design from Witter's Portrait Keyboard, that would be fantastic! ABC DEF GHI is a very tedious method.

I really, really don't want a qwerty keyboard for portrait input, because I have big fingers. I find it hard enough typing on the normal keyboard in landscape mode. I suspect the same is true for a fair number of other people. However:

T9 is pretty easy to implement. There's also various other options for fast input, and we will be doing one of them. I agree that multiple press input sucks. :-)

Originally Posted by BN900

2- The original Virtual Landscape Keyboard does come in handy and the new one in PR 1. is fantastic. Can this app be transformed and installed as a "language" in ukeyboard? This way we can still maintain the older vkb if we want to.

I don't think so, but we can probably introduce some alternative for fast switching. Other things (like better input) are more important for the time being though I think, so if this is something you'd want to work on(?) I'm sure that we can help you do it.

Originally Posted by BN900

3- Also, how do you remove it if you want old keyboard back? Simple uninstall?

Yes. Should work.

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