Use the same text entry in Web browser as elsewhere in GUI
Issue #51
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Text entry for URLs in the browser uses a completely different on-screen interface from the rest of the GUI. In most contexts other, when you enter characters from the numeric keys on the remote, the currently entered character shows in the string immediately and changes as you keep pressing the same button. In the Web Browser, as you press the button, a fairly hard-to-see highlight box jumps around on a QWERTY-style keyboard, and no character appears in the text box until you pause after entering, or press another numeric key. This sort of inconsistency for entering text in different contexts is not very user-friendly.
Please make text entry in the browser consistent with text entry in the rest of the GUI.
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The same virtual keyboard is now used more extensively in the GUI.
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I can't confirm this request as I am not sure what is being asked.
I will suggest that if the remote control buttons are ALL assigned unique KEY_xxx IDs then the UI will know whether a remote control 1 button was pressed or if the attached keyboard 1 button was pressed.
For example, I think the 1 button is defined as KEY_1 for both the remote control and the attached keyboard. If the keyboard retains the KEY_1 value and the remote control gets assigned a new value of, say, KEY_R1 then each key press can be UNIQUELY identified and processed accordingly. (Note that all remote control buttons should be assigned UNIQUE values that are not shared with an attached keyboard to allow for true simultaneous operation of the remote control and an attached keyboard.