Ticket #1936 (new defect)
PIN entry should default to numeric input
| Reported by: | rost | Owned by: | zecke |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Qtopia | Version: | |
| Severity: | major | Keywords: | keyboard pin numeric |
| Cc: | Blocked By: | ||
| Blocking: | Estimated Completion (week): | ||
| HasPatchForReview: | no | PatchReviewResult: | |
| Reproducible: | always |
Description
I got a new Freerunner, updated to the 2008.8 release and wanted to use it.
After starting up the PIN dialog presented only lower case letters. I think in almost all cases PINs are numeric. So it would be much more userfriendly, if you could default to numeric input.
Some more rant:
I did not see any clue how to switch to numeric input. After despairingly clicking around I was finally switching off my Freerunner and wanted to throw it away. After some googling I read all the documentation about the Openmoko keyboard and finally are able to use it but I really do not like it.
I seriously doubt that hiding essential features behind "gestures" (switching input modes, whitespace, backspace) is a terrible idea and will make most end users hate you...
Setting Severity to major because this bug makes the Openmoko essentially unusable for normal users.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by zecke
- Owner changed from openmoko-kernel to zecke
- Component changed from System Software to Qtopia
- Milestone Om2008.8 deleted
Please see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Bug_Filing_Policy for future bugs. Do not set milestones as they are used by Product/Release? Management to prioritize. Do not set a component unless you know...
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by zecke
1.) The PIN Dialog should set a Numeric window hint (easy).
- src/server/phone/simpindialog.cpp
- http://doc.trolltech.com/qtopia4.3/qtopiaapplication.html#setInputMethodHint
2.) The Qtopia predictive keyboard gets a XClientMessage that the current input hint is XYZ and should change to that. Ask raster or me for how the message system is working or look into the e-wm code.
- src/plugins/inputmethods/predictivekeyboard for the Qtopia keyboard.
I see that this ticket ended up owned by openmoko-kernel. This is most probably wrong. When opening the ticket I selected the component "System Software" without knowing that this meant actually the kernel, sorry.
It looks like I can not reassign this ticket to another component without some trac-admin magic I do not fully understand. Whoever is able to do so, please feel free to reassign it to the correct component (Distro?, host utilities?... I don't know).