The question is about hardware keyboards in mobile devices for different languages. What characters to put, what characters to sacrifice? You know it's a hot topic and maybe yourself have thought sometimes: why do they put X which I don't used, while Y is missing?
So if "(" wins the vote, is there really going to be a keyboard with a "(" but not a ")"?
I suppose the email could have been more clear, along the lines that people have suggested. But my first reaction when I got it was how cool it is that direct member input was being solicited about the future of the platform. I hope this continues in the future.
Yes, I had assumed some context would be given in the election. Next time I will provide full text without assuming, sorry.
Having to set preferences is precisely the point since every key counts.
Voting a preferential system based on several languages was even more complicated so we decided to do the survey as it is. The results are anyway orientative and to be taken in the context of further research, including usage of different keyboard variants. Actually if you take out the currency characters, all the rest are mostly equally used or unused in all languages.
And yes, if you like the experiment and there is a wide participation making the survey useful we will think about using this way of gathering feedback in future occasions.
I agree that the email and maemo.org/vote page should have contained more information about what this was about, as it was completely unclear to me. Obviously it's too late to change the emails that were sent out, but can some explanation be added to the web page, to at least inform people who haven't voted or followed the link yet?
Shouldn't ( and ) have been a single item? There's no way anyone would ever have just one of them is there?
Also... different countries get different keyboards anyway, shouldn't we select some kind of country code when we vote or does it automatically register our countries?
I'm missing the option for "provide a four-row keyboard so that we can have ALL of these symbols, AND the caret (^), AND the digits 0-9 without shifting (and also people with accents in their languages can have all four arrow keys unshifted)".
