I don't know what that thing is called, but since it's the same as the "quick input bar" only full-sized, I'm calling it the input bar. I absolutely will never use it because I can only input pinyin or English, and because I use OCR only on special occasions so that I don't need to have an icon for it persistently in front of me. I just only ever leave the keyboard selected on the input bar. The problem is that this input bar, which pops up in the main interface only when you click in the text box, takes up a lot of space. When the keyboard pops up, I really don't want that input bar there because it's never needed. In portrait mode, my Galaxy Note is big enough that I can easily leave the keyboard up as I scroll through entries, but if I could get rid of that input bar it would give me an additional 30% of space devoted to the kind of information for which I use the dictionary. In landscape mode, now that we can control the word list width to definition width, eliminating the input bar would make the definition window high enough to be useful while the keyboard's popped up.
If there's a way to suppress the input bar, I haven't found it. I've been through Settings>Dictionary>Main screen interface and Settings>Dictionary>Definition screen interface. Is there some way to get rid of the input bar so that I can use the space to read dictionary entries?
I'm on the latest beta. As I recall, the same annoyance was there in the last version, but the buttons had words instead of icons.
If there's a way to suppress the input bar, I haven't found it. I've been through Settings>Dictionary>Main screen interface and Settings>Dictionary>Definition screen interface. Is there some way to get rid of the input bar so that I can use the space to read dictionary entries?
I'm on the latest beta. As I recall, the same annoyance was there in the last version, but the buttons had words instead of icons.