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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 illume virtual keyboard a.k.a. Raster's keyboard.
Probably looking like this
See also Illume#Virtual_Keyboard (which would need to be completed ;)
The vkbd system.
Summary:
Detailed version: see How to use the Qtopia keyboard.
Short answer: opkg install illume-config. Long answer: here.
Short answer: opkg install matchbox-keyboard-applet matchbox-keyboard-inputmethod Long answer: here.
TBD
TBD
TBD
By default, if illume keyboard is installed, it will compete with the qtopia one with non-predictable results on which one is displayed on top (correct me if I'm wrong).
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.
TBD
PS: Complaining that management does not listen to the users needs is not a productive option.
On August 27th 2008, Marek from Openmoko inc. announced the intention to focus on the low-level layers. Future "base system" distribution may not include any phone stack at all.