Hi Xavi, > Am 25.04.2016 um 13:09 schrieb Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdru...@tinet.cat>: > > El Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:54:19AM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller deia: >> >> But I have no idea if the on-screen keyboard can be rewritten in a way that >> it works with all other GUI applications (not necessarily Qt based!). You >> would get a problem if you have network-manager and can't type IP >> addresses... So this might be a big challenge (who doesn't love challenges?). >> > > I don't really know. But I took a look at the qtmoko keyboard a year > or two ago (I hardly remember any detail) and got the impression that > not as it is. But then I don't know anything that could do that. In X > it is easier, I think. But without X what is the abstraction for a > keyboard this application should plug into ?
Good question. > Should there have to be a > keyboard driver in the kernel or something? Should it pass as a tty ? That would be an interesting approach. Or we use a pty (or mkfifo) and symlinks to present a virtual /dev/event node where the keyboard process can write to... But I am not sure if X11 will find it because it likely scans /sys for input devices and not /dev. Another idea: the X11 protocol has a mechanism that an application can send keyboard events to the X11 sever. The application that currently has the focus should then receive them. > Where does network-manager get it's keystrokes from ? Looks like something that needs to be analysed. Fortunately it is open source... Otherwise we would not have any chance. > I don't know how > many front-ends for network manager there are... > > The Qtmoko keyboard was simpler that X with compose keys and all the > possibilities to generate characters combining keys (that would be > wellcome but wasn't there). I hope that the team can study that before we meet for the workshop. BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@openphoenux.org http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.openphoenux.org
