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Om 2008.8 uses Qtopia for its phone stack. Qtopia has a build-in keyboard primarily designed to compose SMS in English. This keyboard is very impractical to use with a terminal or enter an URL.
More details..., list of all keyboard bugs in the defect tracking system.
The Qtopia keyboard build-in Om 2008.8. See also the [documentation at Trolltech]
The matchbox keyboard.
The illume virtual keyboard a.k.a. Raster's keyboard.
The vkbd system.
How to use the Qtopia keyboard shipped with Om 2008.8 ?
How to have a toggle button to make the keyboard appear/disappear ?
How to change the keyboards layout ?
How to change the dictionary used by the predictive keyboards ?
How to toggle the predictive mode on and off ?
How to turn off Qtopia keyboard ? According to Comment on ticket 1864: You can put "export QTOPIA_NO_VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD=1" into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/89Qtopia and qpe will not instantiate a virtual keyboard and illume's keyboard should be shown. Another option involves patching and recompiling qpe.
PS: Complaining that management does not listen to the users needs is not a productive option.
On August 27th 2008, Openmoko inc. announced its intention to focus on the low-level layers. Future "base system" distribution may not include any phone stack at all.
Were did you get this from? I can't find the source. Dolfje 17:05, 27 August 2008 (UTC)