2011/12/1 Koen Kooi <[email protected]>: > > Op 1 dec. 2011, om 11:47 heeft Samuel Stirtzel het volgende geschreven: > >> Hi, >> some devices like the Nokia N900 or the OpenPandora provide a hardware >> keyboard, >> other devices need USB keyboards to operate, but how could a user >> input text into a touchscreen-only device? >> >> >> #1. The situation >> >> Portable devices with a touchscreen usually provide virtual keyboards, >> looking around in OE-dev and OE-Core, >> there is illume-keyboard but i doubt it can be used with XFCE that easily. >> >> To tell the user that he has to buy a (small) hardware keyboard to use >> a touchscreen device isn't an "appropriate" solution, >> if you know what I mean ;) >> >> >> >> #2. What was already discovered >> >> There are plenty of virtual keyboards out there, for example: >> -gok (gnome on-screen keyboard) [1] >> -kvkbd (kde virtual keyboard) [2] >> -illume-keyboard (e17 enlightenment on-screen-keyboard add-on) [3] >> -onboard (generic on-screen keyboard) [4] >> -(Qt) Colibri (in application virtual keyboard) [5] >> -(Qt/Gtk2/Gtk3) Maliit (in application virtual keyboard) [6] > > Don't forget matchbox-keyboard and matchbox-keyboard2 :)
Right I forgot about it, sorry. So the new list is as follows: #2. What was already discovered There are plenty of virtual keyboards out there, for example: -gok (gnome on-screen keyboard) [1] -kvkbd (kde virtual keyboard) [2] -illume-keyboard (e17 enlightenment on-screen-keyboard add-on) [3] -onboard (generic on-screen keyboard) [4] -(Qt) Colibri (in application virtual keyboard) [5] -(Qt/Gtk2/Gtk3) Maliit (in application virtual keyboard) [6] -matchbox-keyboards (matchbox wm virtual keyboard) [7] #5. Appendix [1] gok: http://www.gok.ca/ [2] kvkbd: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=94374 [3] illume: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Illume [4] onboard: https://launchpad.net/onboard [5] colibri: https://projects.developer.nokia.com/colibri (note: site currently in maintenance) [6] maliit: https://wiki.maliit.org/Main_Page [7] matchbox-keyboard: http://matchbox-project.org/ (note: the site seems to currently get reworked, so I got no direct link) -- Regards Samuel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
