Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
Keyboard redesign
Bilgus:
I'm starting to implement some of:
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/VKeyboardDesignProposal
This isn't going to end up exactly like the document has laid out instead we will ship with the standard characters we always have
users will be able to load custom keyboards with the character sets they want (just as they always have been able)
https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/4460
this is still a wip and only working in the sim so far
comments welcome
bahus:
Just another idea for keyboard. I quite liked "arrow keys friendly" keyboard on my old e-ink book. Attaching image describing how it works.
Bilgus:
bahaus that is pretty close to how I was imagining it originally
pods of characters grouped by relevance
problems I envision is that grouping would change with different languages
and not make much sense with a foreign char set
that & lack of screen real estate
bahus:
--- Quote from: Bilgus on April 05, 2022, 09:01:16 AM ---pods of characters grouped by relevance
problems I envision is that grouping would change with different languages
--- End quote ---
This 5 sections split allows to select any English/Russian letter in max 4 key presses.
Standard PC keyboard layout has been used by default. As you can see on example picture I provided it's qwerty layout divided in 5 sections. But they also provided ability to customize layouts with user provided characters (just in case example of custom user keyboard layouts can be found here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71946)
Bilgus:
I get the idea but that will then require you to back out of a section to choose the next so idk that its that much more efficient
unless you work on the letter grouping qwerty kinda stinks in that regard
basically the first thing is getting a way to parse the menu structure without breaking everything else
I think I have that worked out for the most part with the latest
next comes adding viewports and scrolling amongst other things to the actual selector
then we can try out a few layouts with a lot less code changes
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