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Multi word ribbon UI for Maliit (video)
Motivated by the new Blackberry 10 virtual keyboard, I decided to spent a couple of hours on a proof of concept, this video being the result.
I had to hack the Presage engine a bit to provide word prediction in a similar fashion to what you see in the 2-3 seconds of the Blackberry video. Then I added some space between the rows of the keyboard, so that I could place additional word ribbons there. The word candidates appear next to their starting letters, though it’s only one candidate per letter. I need to find a better solution here, but then again Blackberry guys also haven’t solved it either ;–) Tapping on the word candidates inserts then into the text editor (no gestures, for now).
The code is very hackish, certainly nothing I would publish. I am going to put it onto a tablet so that I can show it around to you guys at the TiZen Developer Conference or the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
Jon is going to bring a camcorder on Sunday, so perhaps we can actually record a real, youtube-worthy video then.
