[Alpine-info] Re: Nokia N900 and Alpine

[Denis DeLaRoca]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:


> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Denis DeLaRoca wrote:



>> botton line, I could input text a lot quicker using a stylus on my N800.

>

> Can you do stylus input on it (is there an on-screen keyboard)?


Yes, there is still the option to use the virtual on-screen keyboard, but 
since it has to be touch friendly it now fills the entire screen -- it 
leaves you a tiny preview window open in the upper left corner so that you 
can only see the phrase that you are typing in, most unconfortable when 
using Xterm... plus there are some unconfortable side-effects in how they 
implemented this. On Maemo 4.x, you recall the on-screen keyboard could be 
configured to be touch (fill the screen) or stylus (use only a small part 
of the screen) friendly. As fas as I can tell, the latter option is 
gone... I suppose because we now have a hardware keyboard!

--denis