[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] re-evaluating the handwriting input method - but there's a problem

[From: Antonio Orlando]

Today, I've tried the handwriting input method. Oh what a mess, as the  
other times I've tried it. So, in the handwriting teaching app I have  
decided to disable *all* the symbols for *all* the chars (in my western  
charset), then I've created just one custom symbol for each lowercase  
letter and for numbers. Yes it's a hard work, it took me about 20 minutes.

And surprise... it works like a charm! I can write at very high speed with  
very low error rate without having ever used a handwriting input system;  
I've only tried sometimes this one provided with 770, but the screen  
keyboard was faster and accurate so I've soon abandoned it.

Now, with that trick, even with this first try it is way better than the  
screen keyboard. But, there is a problem, which I suppose could be easily  
solved, so the reason for this mail:

sometimes, I need to write capital letters, of course. I don't want to  
define them as symbols, because they easily interfere with other ones,  
this is something to definetely avoid. But, the solution is simple: there  
should be a "caps-lock" button in the handwriting input application! I  
will continue to use my lowercase symbols, but with the caps-lock enabled  
they will be considered as capitals. Smooth and easy, isn't it?

Can I hope this will be added in next firmware update? Just a little  
button, would improve the usability of the entire device a lot. I suggest  
this for everyone: use just ONE symbol for a character, and define symbols  
for as little chars as possible - this way the error rate is zero or  
really low, and you can handwrite 90% of the stuff you need to (supposing  
we have the caps-lock button improvement, otherwise the percentage falls  
down). Try it, if you ususally use the on-screen keyboard: it's not that  
bad with this trick.

-- 
Antonio