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It probably takes the killall function seriously as in. Because xterminal can be inutted text into it causes it to crash as the keyboard switches duing the restart of the hildon-input-method??

Just a thought

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

As for people *****ing about QWERTY vs. T9, I am still of the opinion that we should aim for a final version that has both, and let the end-parasites like us change the settings ourselves.

In the meantime, I think the complaining about how not-pleasant-to-use/impossible-to-use T9 is needs to become less... idk, demanding/entitled? Maybe I'm at an advantage because I'm only 19 now and learned T9 a little over a year ago, so I was young and my brain was still flexible, but age is no excuse to not rejoice at every opportunity to develop said brain flexibility by making it learn new things.

The same goes for people who don't like qwerty, honestly.

Ask for both, so you don't add to a sociological push that will only screw over the people who feel the same way about the choice you don't want, or better yet, ask for having both and then see if you can learn enough to contribute to making it happen.

Originally Posted by gaz_md

Awesome app.. this fone reli needs portrait mode lol, any idea if or when this app will include T9 input, would be a flawless app then :P

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

As for people *****ing about QWERTY vs. T9, I am still of the opinion that we should aim for a final version that has both, and let the end-parasites like us change the settings ourselves.

In the meantime, I think the complaining about how not-pleasant-to-use/impossible-to-use T9 is needs to become less... idk, demanding/entitled? Maybe I'm at an advantage because I'm only 19 now and learned T9 a little over a year ago, so I was young and my brain was still flexible, but age is no excuse to not rejoice at every opportunity to develop said brain flexibility by making it learn new things.

The same goes for people who don't like qwerty, honestly.

Ask for both, so you don't add to a sociological push that will only screw over the people who feel the same way about the choice you don't want, or better yet, ask for having both and then see if you can learn enough to contribute to making it happen.

Originally Posted by w00t

Hi all,

This is an early, crazy, work-in-progress announcement regarding a portrait keyboard for Maemo5 that frals and I are working on in our copious free time. See screenshots below for fun.

Since people keep pointing this out, I'm moving it up here and emphasising it: Worth noting that this is originally written by Nokia, from one of the hildon-input-method examples. We did not write this from scratch.

It is now available from extras-devel, package name is 'portrait-keyboard'.

Known caveats:

• No fast input. Multi-tap to enter a letter, it's slow and *very* painful.
• Changing orientation results in the text you've written so far being lost
• To use it, you'll need to 'killall hildon-input-method' after installing the package (or reboot your n900)
• It's (a bit) painful to use in landscape mode.

Possible future directions (but this is by no means going to happen overnight, these are all quite difficult - feel free to pitch in and help):

• Seperate layout for landscape mode, for easier use
• Fast, predictive input
• Automatic capitalisation

If you're interested in contributing, talk to frals or myself (w00t / w00t_) on #maemo, and see http://gitorious.org/hildon-portrait-keyboard.

Much thanks to Stskeeps and yerga for sending me in the right direction with getting it working, and awesome kudos to frals for getting this in a releasable state.