New stuff available for creating/editing virtual keyboards on the N900 now available - Page 9 - maemo.org

nicolai | # 81 | 2012-09-05, 08:23 | Report

this is how it looks if we just use the pr1.1 keybord layout.
may be there are some missing theme/gtk rc settitngs for
the sliding key. someone has a himrc file from pr1.1?

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freemangordon | # 82 | 2012-09-05, 08:40 | Report

/usr/share/hildon-input-method/himrc definitely misses osso-im-fkb-slide-key. Though you can try and change that to hildon-im-button, here:
https://www.gitorious.org/community-...-fkb.c#line328

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artpra | # 83 | 2012-09-05, 08:40 | Report

Originally Posted by qwazix View Post

I am against proximity enabled things while I'm using the phone as I tend to cover the sensor accidentally.

My thoughts exactly - enabling vk by sensor is not needed. One must deal with slighty less functionality in portrait mode, and slide open to have search option etc.
Proper portrait vk is VERY needed for CSSU to become more consistent and usable. Absolutely. I`m very happy about progress in this matter. But vk randomly popping out on screen (and it WILL happen, when proximity sensor will be used to invoking it) is the least thing we need, really.

Is support for custom "user made" layouts possible?

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artpra | # 84 | 2012-09-05, 08:50 | Report

Originally Posted by nicolai View Post

someone has a himrc file from pr1.1?

I can downgrade my n900 to PR1.1 and take out that file for You if needed.

gregoranderson | # 85 | 2012-09-05, 08:51 | Report

Biggest pain in the arse for me about the N900 is the missing numeric row on the hw keyboard.

Combination of HW keyboard and wee VKB with the numeric row in landscape would be big dug's danglies.

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freemangordon | # 86 | 2012-09-05, 08:51 | Report

@nicolai:

Code:

Nokia-N900:~# dpkg -S /usr/share/hildon-input-method/himrc
hildon-input-method-plugins-western: /usr/share/hildon-input-method/himrc
Nokia-N900:~# dpkg -L hildon-input-method-plugins-western
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/hildon-input-method
/usr/share/hildon-input-method/himrc
Nokia-N900:~# apt-cache show hildon-input-method-plugins-western
Package: hildon-input-method-plugins-western
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 28
Maintainer: Mohammad Anwari <Mohammad.Anwari@nokia.com>
Architecture: all
Source: hildon-input-method-plugins
Version: 3.9.66-1+0m5
Replaces: libhildon-input-method-plugins-western-sdk (<< 3.0.0-1), libhildon-input-method-plugins-western (<< 3.0.0-1), hildon-input-method-extra-keyboard-layouts
Provides: libhildon-input-method-plugins-western
Depends: hildon-im-fkb (= 3.9.66-1+0m5), hildon-im-keyboard-assistant (= 3.9.66-1+0m5), hildon-im-keyboard-assistant-scv (= 3.9.66-1+0m5), hildon-im-plugin-settings, hildon-input-method-widgets (>= 3.3.16)
Conflicts: libhildon-input-method-plugins-western-sdk (<< 3.0.0-1), libhildon-input-method-plugins-western (<< 3.0.0-1)
Filename: ./hildon-input-method-plugins-western_3.9.66-1+0m5_all.deb
Size: 1544
MD5sum: c75f3e94f005065454c823f26e110d40
SHA1: 84400692d01a2b98b9fc400778233aeeb71a297f
SHA256: 2a7c171fde144d13aaecc01b630054ebbae314fe5b3b999e227b95171ddd8097
Description: Western plugins for the Hildon Input Method
 This is meta package which provides the standard Hildon Input Method plugins.

himrc is part of the same package, so we can modify it as well

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freemangordon | # 87 | 2012-09-05, 09:02 | Report

Originally Posted by artpra View Post

My thoughts exactly - enabling vk by sensor is not needed. One must deal with slighty less functionality in portrait mode, and slide open to have search option etc.
Proper portrait vk is VERY needed for CSSU to become more consistent and usable. Absolutely. I`m very happy about progress in this matter. But vk randomly popping out on screen (and it WILL happen, when proximity sensor will be used to invoking it) is the least thing we need, really.

Is support for custom "user made" layouts possible?

While I understand your concerns, there are situations when opening HW kbd is just not possible - imagine you want to search for a song in O/MP while driving (don't tell me it is a bad idea to look at the device instead of the road, I know it

)

artpra | # 88 | 2012-09-05, 09:31 | Report

Well, I`m seeing it as a inconvenient and awkward functionality (no offence intended). It`s like some hackish approach, not a customer ready UI feature (for example what about invoking vk in apps where vk is not working? what about phone calls? make blacklist, whitelist, many additional "IF`s" in code?). I know for sure, that I will be frequently closing off not needed vk from screen -> worsening my user experience.

But that`s only my opinion - if You are going to implement it, please make it optional (even via gconf).

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abufaisal.o | # 89 | 2012-09-05, 11:52 | Report

@freemangordon

Just saying, how about add a button on hildon drop-down menu?

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qwazix | # 90 | 2012-09-05, 16:24 | Report

Also, please consider bringing back gestures, swipe left to delete, swipe right to instert space, and swipe up for capital letter as was implemented in PR1.0 and older maemo devices.

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