[Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at 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)¹ 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).
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>> 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

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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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