I hope somebody will eventually come up with a clean package that will provide the original onscreen-keyboard as an additional input method. It had many characters, large keys, had a better "feeling" and, above all, provided clever gestures that really helped me to type faster.
I simply guess the guy who designed the recent versions of the onscreen keyboard is a sadist.
To be honest with you I was kinda hating the older on screen layout and I was super excited about PR 1.2 one. But it went WORST!!. It take me longer to just type in this shi**t. I hate to use the qwerty keyboard cause I don't have think fingers.