On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayami...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Gary Martin <garycmar...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> Hi Sayamindu, >> >> On 17 Jun 2010, at 13:16, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> >>> [Apologies for the cross-posting] >>> >>> Hello, >>> Thanks to the pointers provided by Peter Robinson, I got the Meego >>> FVKBD (Free Virtual Keyboard)ยน running along with Sugar. >>> A problem with the current FVKBD is that it supports only one base >>> layout. Even "variants" of that layout (eg: CapsLock enabled, Symbols, >>> etc) are treated as "temporary", which means that you press the "Caps" >>> key, enter a capital letter, and immediately after that, it gets reset >>> back to the base layout (lower case qwerty). >>> I wanted something which would be similar to the existing physical >>> keyboards that we ship with the XO machines - with a dedicated key to >>> switch between different scripts in the same keyboard. I had to extend >>> the code of FVKBD to implement that, and with the modified FVKBD, I >>> have spun a live-cd ISO (based on the current SOAS). You can download >>> it from http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar-vkbd-test/sugar-vkbd-test.iso >> >> Wow, big thanks for launching into this. For anyone not sure how to try the >> iso, I'm on a Mac and just used Virtual Box to create a new empty Fedora VM, >> no HD, and just point to the iso as the boot CD. Started up just fine, >> keyboard is already open to type in your user name (of course this is all >> read only, any changes you make will be gone after a reboot). >> >
<...snip> >> >> Sayamindu, what kind'a feedback/assistance would be most useful? Is it too >> soon to start collating notes and screen shots on a wiki page somewhere? > > Yes - I think we should start putting all of this in a wiki. > I have put in some of my thoughts and ideas into the wiki : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Onscreen_Keyboard Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
