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Re: Keyboard usability

 

This is true. I usually just put the cursor near to where I want to correct and simply delete and retype because sometimes that's much faster than putting cursor correctly. I think in Sailfish OS they have a thinkpad-like trackpoint and it seems to work good. Maybe we can have something like this.

On Monday, February 15, 2016 5:59:39 PM PHT, Royden Yates <royden.yates@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Monday, 15 February 2016 06:06:54 CET, Ferdinand Holzner <ferdinandholzner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there again,

two thing are missing to improve the usability of the keyboard:

T9 layout would be nice. Especially for people with big thumbs.I I never got used to those full layout on small screens. But more important would be to have arrow keys to navigate through the text. If I have a typo somewhere, its more of a hit and miss. I have to fiddle around until the cursor is on the place I want it to.



Indeed. The blue cursor is not as useable as on other OSs yet but it has improved. It works now well enough to select the line to be edited , but fine letter level placement has a way to go. Picking up the cursor blob is difficult. Are arrows necessary if that gets sorted?

And please, let's have a back erase key that does not accelerate like a Ferrari when held down.

R





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