[maemo-developers] Using graphic input for user input, filenames etc.

[From: gary liquid]

sounds good :)

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Andrew Daviel <advax at triumf.ca> wrote:

>
> A suggestion for tablet GUI/applications:
>
> I'd like to be able to enter a scribble directly as an input field (FYI,
> one could do this in NCSA Mosaic - "jot", as I recall). And I'd like to
> be able to use a scribble as a filename.
>
>
> I was trying to add a mark to a GPS track in Maemo Mapper, on an N810 in
> the vehicle mount. I.e. trying to use the handwriting recognizer rather
> than removing the tablet from the mount and opening the keyboard.
> I didn't need it to be 100% correct, I just needed to be able to read it
> myself later. Which is not so easy; it tends to read my "Gate" as "9ot 3"
> or something.
>
> Then I realized that if I could just save the actual handwriting, rather
> than trying to get it recognized, it would save a lot of trouble (OK, bad
> example, GPX requires UTF8, but you get the idea. Or scribbles could be
> escaped to text for transport).
> Ditto for "save file as". If one is using a GUI file selector, which
> shows files graphically as icons, then using a scribble as the icon is a
> natural extension. If the computer stores the name internally as some
> 255-byte value, the user doesn't care - as long as it can be renamed or
> used as-is in the GUI.
>
> We abandoned 8+3 filenames, we abandoned ASCII, maybe we can abandon
> text. Photos as filenames ? Sound clips for the blind ?
>
> --
> Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
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