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Old March 13th, 2006, 08:04 AM
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usability: On-screen keyboard layouts

Although the rockword keyboard looks nice, the querty layout is one of the least usefull layouts to be used for an onscreen keyboard. This for the reason that the querty layout was constructed to prevent jamming of old typewriters. This meant that the most used letters needed to be placed far apart from each other.

On-screen this means that you need to make a lot of (unnecessary) movement.
For onscreen typing a simple alphabetic scheme is much more convenient. Or even the Dvorak keyboard layout would, imo, be much faster.
The alphabet scheme is used in many console-games, which also suffer from the limit of buttons.

The current available rockbox onscreen keyboards do their job, but it's far from optimal.
I think it would be better if there was a single, for onscreen optimised keyboard layout.

What do others think about this?

(disclaimer-ish thingy: this is in now way meant to bash or offend anyone, just general discussion )
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