Re: Sugar on Tablet - On Screen Keyboard
Hi Narendra, On 21 Sep 2010, at 05:56, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: Is anybody working on Onscreen Keyboard or related stuff on Sugar ? also what is the current status and how I can contribute. We got some success to bring Sugar on ARM tablets[1]. now we are exploring more. need suggestion too As per Tomeu's email, Sayamindu had done the most investigation in this area I think. He implemented mobins fvkbd (http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/fvkbd/) as an experiment in Sugar. Here's the .iso he made with it added in (virtual keyboard device icon is in the frame): http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar-vkbd-test/sugar-vkbd-test.iso There is a screen cast of it at: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar_vkbd_multi.ogv And the feature wiki page is at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Onscreen_Keyboard Also note that the Dextrose images have the gnome accessibility virtual keyboard (enable it from the My Settings control panel). Its visual theme is not very Sugar like, but I think it may be a better choice as is has all keys available, the vkbd seems more for casual phone type messaging use (missing lots of symbols you would need if you wanted to do a programming type task, even missing some basic maths characters). I'm not sure how well the gnome virtual keyboard is to localise, that would be rather critical to make sure it works easily for many language keyboards. Regards, --Gary [1] - http://blog.narendrasisodiya.com/2010/09/fedora-12-olpc-sugar-on-arm.html -- ┌─┐ │Narendra Sisodiya │http://narendrasisodiya.com └─┘ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Sugar on Tablet - On Screen Keyboard
Also note that the Dextrose images have the gnome accessibility virtual keyboard (enable it from the My Settings control panel). Its visual theme is not very Sugar like, but I think it may be a better choice as is has all keys available, the vkbd seems more for casual phone type messaging use (missing lots of symbols you would need if you wanted to do a programming type task, even missing some basic maths characters). I'm not sure how well the gnome virtual keyboard is to localise, that would be rather critical to make sure it works easily for many language keyboards. There are a couple of other use cases and functionality we should probably start discussing early on. Do we want to enable Google's Swype technology? I have done no research on this, and am not even sure it is has an open source license. It would make text input much easier when the tablet is being held 9x16, or whatever the final long dimension is. Word completion. This is obviously a time saver for inputting text via an on-screen keyboard. In a learning environment this is also a big cheat/crutch. Do we have an administrative on/off switch? Just some thoughts I wanted to add to the keyboard discussion. -Jon ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Sugar on Tablet - On Screen Keyboard
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 06:56, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: Is anybody working on Onscreen Keyboard or related stuff on Sugar ? also what is the current status and how I can contribute. We got some success to bring Sugar on ARM tablets[1]. now we are exploring more. need suggestion too Hi, Sayamindu posted recently about his work porting the Meego on-screen keyboard to Sugar. Search the archives of this list or sugar-devel's. Regards, Tomeu [1] - http://blog.narendrasisodiya.com/2010/09/fedora-12-olpc-sugar-on-arm.html -- ┌─┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─┘ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
