Thread: [Kindle Touch] xterm & matchbox-keyboard
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Old 05-25-2012, 08:48 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by geekmaster View Post
The unfinished terminal program that I work on when I have time uses a "REAL standard" keyboard layout commonly used on netbook computers. It does not need additional keyboard layouts for normal operation. I "blit" character images onto the keys so that I can support other keyboard layouts such as AZERTY or Cyrillic. I wish I had time to complete this, but I will have very little available time during the next two months.
RANT
Perhaps you've noticed during the evolution of the NetBook products - - -
Our "space bar" is disappearing, if the trends continue, it will soon be no larger than any other key.
/RANT

Which might not be such a bad idea in the confined real estate of an on-screen keyboard.
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