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onyxbits / remotekeyboard

Android input method
http://www.onyxbits.de/remotekeyboard
Apache License 2.0
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add example of telnet call #11

Open landroni opened 9 years ago

landroni commented 9 years ago

In the app you indicate:

To actually type, connect to your device with a telnet client from your desktop computer.

Unfortunately not all of us are familiar with how telnet clients work, and how exactly they should be invoked in RK's case. So I would suggest adding in-app and in the FAQ something to the tune of:

For example, on Linux you can do this by executing from a terminal telnet localhost 2323

Personally, after I figured out how to connect to the device using adb, as per the FAQ, I was lost as to how exactly to initiate the typing.

onyxbits commented 9 years ago

Will have to think about this. The unfortunate thing is I would have to give instructions for Windows XP, Vista, 8 and soon 10 as well as KDE, GNOME and MacOSX. Thats quite a lot of info for a tiny screen.

Am Sonntag, den 26.10.2014, 11:45 -0700 schrieb landroni:

In the app you indicate: 

    To actually type, connect to your device with a telnet client
    from your desktop computer.

Unfortunately not all of us are familiar with how telnet clients work, and how exactly they should be invoked in RK's case. So I would suggest adding in-app and in the FAQ something to the tune of: 

    For example, on Linux you can do this by executing from a
    terminal telnet localhost 2323

Personally, after I figured out how to connect to the device using adb, as per the FAQ, I was lost as to how exactly to initiate the typing.

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landroni commented 9 years ago

Well, XP is dead so one OS less to worry about. I suspect that for basic instructions, from command line, all of KDE, Gnome, Xfce and Mac OS X are pretty much the same. This said, I see what you mean. You could always add a separate button (How to run telnet) that would bring up a longer, more detailed screen with instructions for various platforms.

But short of this, as I suggested originally, simply adding such instructions in the online FAQ would be of great help to newcomers.