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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Improve the usability of the text editorRe: Improve the usability of the text editor
From: Johannes <johannes.schw_at_gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:54:48 +0100 On 22.12.2009 22:50, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > Assuming you mean the virtual keyboard and not the text editor plugin.. > I know it allows users to load their own keyboard file, does it force > the system font so only ASCII can actually be used? > Yes, I mentioned this is the negative aspect of my concept > The vkeyboard is plenty usable on some targets (h300) and downright > painful on others (almost any with a wheel). > > I would certainuly welcome a redesign, but you need to remember it > needs to work on targets with small screens, with wheels instead of 4 > direction buttons, with low button counts, with RTL languages and all > supported codepages. > I opened a new task in the tracker.(FS#10872) I adjust the calculator plugin to show my concept. I test it in the simulator and it also works on small screens. Even quite better than the calculator, because aspect ratio is included. On 22.12.2009 23:58, Dominik Riebeling wrote: > Then we could remote RTL support completely ... or support for > languages that use non-latin characters, right? > Unfortunately my concept excludes RTL completely. > Something I'm missing for the virtual keyboard: > - display the entry line multi-lined if enough space is around. > Entering / changing long paths is quite painful if you can only see a > small fraction. Happens especially on small screens ... > - Display multiple input character "pages" below each other if there > is enough space. On several targets there's more than half of the > screen unused, and instead of switching between pages with input > characters they can be put above each other. Capital and small letters > are the ones I'd like to have there almost every time I use the > virtual keyboard -- on my mini I have to switch pages which is > somewhat annoying. > I would rather use the unused space to display the characters in bigger font. Received on 2009-12-23 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |