905482 - [Flatfish][Keyboard] add support for large device

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1065893

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

Expect:

Modify and Merge experiment tablet work from 

https://github.com/gaia-local/gaia

to master

Comment 1

[Greg Weng [:snowmantw][:gweng][:λ]]

Attachment: Keyboard_in_mail

Use mail's Compose page as keyboard's example.

Comment 2

[Francis Lee [:frlee]]

It's a must for flatfish. Marked as koi+ according to triage result.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Mike, is there any keyboard UX spec that we should follow?

Comment 4

[GoodMike]

Yes, first Spec is coming out on 10/15~10/17.

Comment 5

[Ivan Tsay (:ITsay)]

Minus it because functionally work in koi already. This is bug for tablet feature work.

Comment 6

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Attachment: spec for tablet - Keyboard_20131119.zip

Comment 7

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Nominate for v1.3.
We have a spec update here, and according to UX suggestion, we can focus on layout update first and keep the visual style as is.

Comment 8

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

De-nominate this as we're waiting for the confirmation of layout change for tablet.

Comment 9

[cyke64]

Have you received now confirmation of layout change for tablet ? 
I'm contributor to the Tablet Contribution Program and it will be now very interesting to get a better keyboard for my Flashfish device.

Comment 10

[Caspy7]

Not wanting to add noise, but will this cover contextual inputs?
Currently when typing in the URL bar on Flatfish there is now forward slash present.

Comment 11

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Not sure if the spec is the final version.
So ni our UX with bug 906552 comment 7.

(In reply to Caspy7 from comment #10)
> Not wanting to add noise, but will this cover contextual inputs?
> Currently when typing in the URL bar on Flatfish there is now forward slash
> present.

If this is about the URL bar in the browser app, that should be a separate issue, and we had an old debate about it.
This is as is because that is not just a URL bar but also a search bar, so we have to use type="text" for that input field, and keyboard won't show "/" for type="text".

Comment 12

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

Bug 906552 comment 8 has the answer to this. 

"Not yet. For tablet Keyboard, as I know, the UX spec would be done at the end of July, and visual spec at the end of August. The schedule may still change."

Comment 14

[Carlo 'Carcarlo' Carmagnini]

It would be a nice feature if the keyboard had the arrow keys like a physical one. Very often I find it difficult to move among the single letters of a small text field, I have to tap so many times till I succeed selecting the wanted position.

On the first use, I had problem understanding how to type some characters like square brackets []. I am new to touch devices so it could be a common problem to users in my own condition (no, I wasn't drunk). I have seen that the layout has been slightly changed in the latest build (I refer to today's one, Build identifier: 20140814012429, Git commit info: a2219a55) and that "ALT" is now "Alt". Maybe a different background colour just for that specific button could improve usability.

Comment 15

[mac]

Current keyboard is extremely uncomfortable - it is too large, keys are too far from each other. On tablet there is so much space that many additional keys can be put in default view of keyboard (i.e. comma, colon, at ('@') and etc.

It would be a good idea to allow users to set size of keyboard as well - in such situation those who want have it smaller to write faster could do that and those who really need huge keys also have chance to get it.

Tested on:
Foxconn InFcocus F1 tablet (TCP)
B2G version: 2.1.0.0-prerelease master
Platform version: 34.0a1
Build Identifier: 20140815012352
Git commit info: 2014-08-14 16:21:42 e57ea931

Comment 16

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

Moving needinfo to Bruce.

Comment 17

[Bruce Huang [:bhuang] (inactive)]

Adding Omega on UX

Comment 18

[Omega Feng [:Omega] [:馮於懋]]

We'll have new UX design for tablet keyboard in early Sep.

Comment 20

[Omega Feng [:Omega] [:馮於懋]]

See bug 1065893 for the latest UX spec for tablet.

Comment 21

[Joshua Smith [:joshua-s]]

Should we close this bug and move work to bug 1065893?

Comment 22

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

(In reply to Joshua Smith [:joshua-s] from comment #21)
> Should we close this bug and move work to bug 1065893?

+1

Comment 23

[Joshua Smith [:joshua-s]]

Closed!  This issue is being addressed by bug 1065893.