Play along - create a PinePhone keyboard

[dgdimick]

I'm sure the slider would suit everyone.

No, it wouldn't. The slider would be better than nothing, but for what I want out of a keyboard this is much better.

It is my understanding that there were always two keyboard projects: a slider and a clam shell.  And the slider isn't cancelled but just delayed, because it is much harder to design a slider than a clam shell.

Could someone with connections to the inside maybe comment on that? @Luke ? @tllim ?

I could be wrong but I don't think anyone "official" has commented on this thread since the early pages. We've been asked to play along and discuss ideas for the PinePhone keyboard but the only feedback we've received is in the form of monthly updates which appear to have totally ignored the issues we've been pointing out.

Your post, and others have me thinking a bit on all of this.

I'm thinking that the "officials" you seem to be looking for don't really exist beyond the scope of getting the hardware out to an interested group, and these "officials" look to this same group to develop a lot of these "add-ons" you're looking for.

I see this as how we have grown to use and enjoy most opensource projects, get the idea, and let the users build the idea, rather then the MS, Apple model of "spoon-feeding" the user base their ideas.

This shouldn't be taken as a slam, or slight, to anyone involved in anyway with the Pine64 project, and if someone does take it this way, I apologize, it's all on my inability to express the idea.

Thanks,
Denis