[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] neat device

[From: Disconnect]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Chris Bare did have cause to say:

> > On 3/30/06, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> > [snip memory rant and offensive remarks about the VKB]
> > > So I whipped up a little X keyboard which uses a more reasonable tens of
> > > k of RAM,
> > 
> > So you "whipped up" handwriting and word prediction too? How cool!
> > 
> > (hint: if you start dissing something, please at least look at its
> > features before calling it demeaning names)
> 
> I agree that the current keyboard has a lot of features, but personally I
> never use the handwriting or word prediction, so I'd be interested in a
> lighter-weight alternative.

"Me too". (I had a fairly long response that I decided not to send, suffice 
it to say my use-case is VKB or bluetooth, with periodic out-of-mem crashes 
mixed in for fun. And I support our new open-source overlords :) .. 
seriously, it would be really nice to have multiple choices. I'd love, for 
example, to put the numbers and menus on the same side so that I could use 
it with minimal wrist movement. And I'd kill for an unshifted '-'.)