4 row Gingerbread Landscape Mode setting does not effect, requires restart

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I had a fresh install of hackerskeyboard with default settings.
2. Begun it to use/test it with ConnectBot and wanted to get rid of the 
F1,..,FN function keys.
3. I switched the setting (4 row Gingerbread) in the hackerskeyboard settings 
menu but it was still showing the F1, ..., FN row.
4. Then I switched to Samsung keyboard and back to hackerskeyboard a couple of 
times but still the same.
5. After that I restarted the phone and finally the settings took effect.

What is the expected behavior? What do you see instead?
That settings take effect immediately and does not require phone reboot.

What version of Hacker's Keyboard are you using? (See "Debug" section at
the bottom of the app's Settings menu.)
1.29.1288 (2012-01-13) installed from the Android market.

On what phone or tablet?
Samsung Galaxy SII

If applicable, does this affect the 4-row or 5-row layout, or both? Which
(5-row layout, or both?)

language(s)?
US (default), I didn't change anything regarding this after the install.

Please provide any additional information below.
Thanks for working on a software like that, it really helps a lot of sysadmins 
who want to use ssh client on Android.
Sorry if this bug was already reported.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by 000...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2012 at 9:47

• Merged into: #175

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Were you seeing a 6th row with F1-12, Home, and End keys? Or are you talking 
about the normal 5th row with digits 1..9?

The 6th row is the optional extension keyboard, by default this is toggled by a 
"swipe up" gesture in the keyboard. If that's the case, I'm surprised that it's 
so persistent, I'll look into resetting the flag for that when changing 
keyboards.

In hindsight I should probably keep this enabled by default.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2012 at 10:17

• Changed state: Accepted

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It is actually the 6th row with F1-12, Home, and End keys.
I see what you are talking about. Now I realized that I can turn it of by 
"swipe up".
Though swiping the way that the 6th row is switched on/off is a bit tricky as I 
see, not that trivial :)
I guess then that is wasn't on by default but I swiped up once inadvertently 
and tried to switch it off using the 
(Gingerbread 4 row) setting. :)
Sorry I was a bit misleading then. If I understand correctly the setting I was 
talking about (Gingerbread 4 row) does not influence the visibility of the 6th 
row.

By the way after setting and unsettling (Gingerbread 4 row) in the settings 
does not make a visible difference for me on the keyboard.
It still has the 5th row with numbers no matter what you set in settings.
So as I see what I wrote is still valid but instead of the F1,..FN row for the 
1,..,9 row.
Maybe I oversee something. Maybe you should also try it.
Let me know if you have more questions.

Original comment by 000...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2012 at 11:13

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Thanks for clarifying. I'm changing the next version to reset the extension row 
setting when reinitializing the keyboard to help avoid it getting stuck 
unexpectedly. Yes, the swipe gestures are a bit difficult to trigger 
consistently, I'm working on that. Binding actions to the volume keys works a 
lot better.

Yes, the extension keyboard is a separate feature. Some keyboards have an 
extension row, the 5-row full layout has F1-F12,Home,End, and the 4-row 
Gingerbread keyboard has digits as a 5th row.

The current Market version doesn't correctly apply the landscape keyboard mode 
setting due to a coding error, please try the current prerelease (v1.30rc3 or 
later) from http://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/downloads/list which fixes 
this.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2012 at 11:21

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Thanks for the great support. I really appreciate what you are doing.
I hope that there will be more open source Android software available in the 
future.

Original comment by 000...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2012 at 11:47

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Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2012 at 2:23

• Changed state: Duplicate