Comments on: Jolla: Confirms Onscreen Keyboard Details

By: ewedel

ewedel — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:11:34 +0000

Interesting link, thanks for the cite. Another curious post and thread is here

http://www.murrayc.com/permalink/2013/03/04/maliit-keyboard-improvements/

This is from March 2013, so predates yours. The comments thread gets into a discussion of how Maliit had to fall back from the caliber it had on the N9 due to licensing issues. Sounds like it likely hadn’t yet caught up when Openismus stopped work on it in July.

Perhaps Jolla have a set of patches they’ve not yet released?

Anyway, I’m one of those who (very) strongly prefers an HW keyboard, so not too concerned about on-screen.

By: Redd

Redd — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 05:04:49 +0000

That’s very nice of you guys. I love both of your works/blogs providing us with exciting Jolla info. At the moment I have scarce resources to share or contribute I’m afraid (compared with yours of course), so I’d prefer keeping an eye on your sites Looking forward to Christmas 2013

By: alci63

alci63 — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:48:05 +0000

I know N9 is supposed to have swype, but I never could figure out what this could be. Didn’t bother to spend too much time either… but I can tell you can very well do without !

By: Brtt

Brtt — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:20:55 +0000

That’s funny, my N9′s OSKB is an utter pain to use…

By: Ben Opp

Ben Opp — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:34:29 +0000

alright, it’s just that predictive text input is not the same as Swype, is it?

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By: Shaun Murray (@aegisdesign)

Shaun Murray (@aegisdesign) — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:07:57 +0000

“based on Maliit” seems to be the salient point in this post. Openismus had to downsize in July and they dropped working on the project. The previous developers then moved to other companies including KDAB,

http://www.murrayc.com/permalink/2013/07/09/openismus-mini/

The github/gitorius repositories have had very few commits in the last year so I presume the development has happened elsewhere.

The SDK is obviously using Maliit still but it’s pretty basic and not exactly ‘polished’ so I hope Jolla have something up their sleeves.

By: Shaun Murray (@aegisdesign)

Shaun Murray (@aegisdesign) — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:37:25 +0000

It’s almost a given they have predictive text.

The Sailfish TextArea component has a flag to switch it off…

inputMethodHints : Qt::InputMethodHints

Holds the hints to the input panel about the nature of the input this field expects. The input panel will display an input method suitable for the hints provided. The hints may be or’ed together:

TextArea {
inputMethodHints: Qt.ImhEmailCharactersOnly | Qt.ImhNoPrediction
}

The allowed input method hints are:
Qt.ImhDialableCharactersOnly – Phone numbers
Qt.ImhDigitsOnly – Integer numbers
Qt.ImhEmailCharactersOnly – Email field
Qt.ImhFormattedNumbersOnly – Decimal numbers
Qt.ImhNoPrediction – Disable prediction
Qt.ImhUrlCharactersOnly – Web address

By: norayr

norayr — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:05:38 +0000

I have added Armenian layout to maliit, and I hope that it’s included in Sailfish. Also, I hope Sailfish contains dejavu-fonts or some other fonts which contain Armenian glyphs because having maliit which unable to show them out of the box is not cool.

By: mich

mich — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:53:01 +0000

i hope