Dear all,


I recently purchased a Nokia N9 as it was a real bargain because of slight scratches on the housing, so here I am: I'm a N900 addict trying a N9 but missing the numerous features we all listed dozen of times on these boards, including the physical keyboard of course.

I just tried the application named FingerTerm and found the virtual keyboard absolutely fantastic here. It has all the features I need on the same page (except it's a QWERTY and I need an AZERTY with accents...) and the keys are large enough for me to be almost as accurate and fast as with the N900 physical keyboard.

I understand this is probably a complete remake of the whole Terminal application, and not just an alternate virtual keyboard installed here, but I'm wondering whether it could be done? Would it be possible to use the FingerTerm VKB to replace the VKB in all other apps (at least in landscape mode), with the built in opacity feature? It would be so fantastic for me I could die in pure happiness just after trying it, I guess.

The default VKB in Harmattan is absolutely horrible to me. It is a pain to use it, despite several hours spent on it trying to familiarize myself with it, be it in Swype mode or not. I can't type anything efficiently with it. The FingerTerm one, even in QWERTY, would save me from a brain seizure, but of course any help to customize it into AZERTY would be welcome.

Anybody here with dev skills could tell if this would be feasible? I see that scrips exist to change the default virtual keyboard in Harmattan, although it still looks quite similar afterwards (only slight changes in key spacing or layout, and so on). I am wondering whether a more sophisticated alternate keyboard could be installed based on the great ideas of the developer who created FingerTerm. Thanks in advance for your answers.

that qml keyboard is pretty cool, so most likely one could make versions of most qml apps to use it. But I doubt that one can replace default vkb with it. Well in theory everything is possible as it is just software, so with enough people and effort transparent vkb is possible, but I doubt that there is enough incentive for anyone to take on such a big task.

I have a low priority todo list to get transparent vkb in presence vnc, but currently I just don't have time to do anything.

Thank you for your answer!

Your answer is frustrating, as it seems it would be possible somehow, but would require too much work. This VKB is by far the best I've tried, it is possible to use it without suffering brain damage in less than 15 sec, unlike all other VKBs.

Too bad. :[

just rebuilt for harmattan , can any one test ?

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http://rzr.online.fr/q/harmattan# shared repo's pkgs to test ask 4 more , #FingerTerm #vpn9c #centerim #zsh #nzbget #fizsh #bittornado #byobu

I don't exactly understand what you did and what needs some test, but if you have found a way to use a similar keyboard outside Fingerterm itself, then I'd be very happy to try it and give you some feedback. Please let me know (in French by PM or in English here).