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Gemini PDA - Hardware / All the keyboard layouts published so far

« on: February 23, 2018, 04:40:24 am »

As a Swede, I note we seem to have lost the dead accent key. There's no obvious way to spell idé (which indeed is a distinct word from ide). But we apparently get to keep the completely unused ¤ and § symbols. I'm not that upset; this format was going to be a compromise from the start. Perhaps it's a less clear method like shift+fn+i e? As a sidenote, I wonder what our word for idé was before loaning that from french...

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Make phone calls from Linux

« on: January 12, 2018, 04:46:25 pm »

One frontend for ofono voice calls would be telepathy-ring, another debian package. Found by "apt rdepends ofono". A GUI for the Telepathy framework would be Empathy.

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / All the keyboard layouts published so far

« on: January 10, 2018, 05:28:29 am »

Are some of these keyboards not the same? My understanding (for example) is that all the UK keyboards are exactly the same, but supplied with a different mains adapter specific to each country. (IE UK keyboard for use in UK has a three pronged plug, UK keyboard for use in Europe is the same keyboard, but with a two pronged European plug).

Those are probably the same (though US-style wide enter vs ISO-style tall enter variants exist in some brands). Swedish and Finnish layouts are typically identical.