Maliit, Plasma Active and Mer

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 21 May 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 21.05.2012 17:56, Marco Martin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > first of all sorry for the big cross posting but is a topic that is
> > important to all 3 lists.
> 
> (Since I think my comments are Plasma Active specific, I only replied to
> our list)
> 
> > Now that i had a bit of time to play with it, i got a plasma-themed qml
> > keyboard that we can use and results so far can be seen here:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZs-RPyF9zE
> 
> Nicely done! I especially like the gesture-based repositioning :)
> The only thing that I liked better about the current keyboard is that it
> made better use of the horizontal space available on e.g. the WeTab (which
> cannot really be used otherwise since the keyboard covers the central part
> anyway). This is another one of those cases where I think it's important
> to adapt the UI to the screen size and pixel density.

yeah, now sizes are still mostly hardcoded as the old qml one i started on 
(size is smaller to adapt to vivaldi)
i plan to use dpi there as well.

> I see two possible uses for the extra space on larger screens (in landscape
> orientiation):
> 1. Offer more keys on on each set (what the current keyboard does)
> 2. Make the keys bigger and thus easier to hit (thus reducing the
> fat-finger-problem a bit)
> 
> While having more keys available without switching is nice, the problem is
> that after rotating the screen, the key layout would change, possibly
> irritating users. Therefore I think it makes more sense to adapt the key
> size (as other mobile on-screen keyboards do on rotation as well).
> 
> Another important thing: Will the Maliit-based keyboard support specialized
> layouts for specific types of input fields (e.g. numeric)?

that qml version not yet, the framework supports it (used to do the numeric 
keypad on the N9)
the qml version of maliit still needs a lot of bindings to be feature complete 
with the old c++ version on the n9 as i hear, so more features will be 
eventually possible trough time


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Marco Martin