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Originally Posted by stefanmohl View Post
Well, you will have to persuade Dirkvl to make you a keyboard if you want to code on the Jolla then :-) (Well, if you have a Jolla and don't have a TOH-KB, of course.)
No Jolla. Much as I admire the initiative, I do not have 400-odd euros spare for a device that does not even have a decent (read: hardware) keyboard.

As a matter of fact, I am currently getting to grips with the N9. I can get used to the on-screen keyboard, even though the typing speed is about a quarter and the accuracy about a hundredth of that on a real keyboard. What I miss most dearly are the cursor keys. How on earth do people fix spelling mistakes three words back? If the damn thing had at least a resistive touchscreen where I could point exactly at the wrong character with a stylus or a finger nail. As it is, all I can do is touch vaguely somewhere in the area and hope. I doubt Jolla is any better in this regard.

Haptic and similar feeble attempts at simulating the real thing are a step in the wrong direction, IMNSHO. The main point of the physical keyboard is to feel the key before you press it, not after. By that time it is already late. What's the point of vibrating reassuringly to confirm that I hit a key when it is the wrong one?

Err, sorry, I got carried away, didn't I?

Originally Posted by shadowjk View Post
Most of the 'hacking' is done out of reach of PC, to pass time.
Same here. Most of the time in the bath
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