[Techteam] 13.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4

Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 02:38:56 EDT 2012


On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8 Oct 2012 00:41, "Gary Martin" <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 7 Oct 2012, at 23:56, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >
>> > On 7 Oct 2012 23:17, "Martin Langhoff" <martin at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > #12082  Maliit on-screen keyboard
>> > >
>> > > Yay!!! Is the evdev trickery all hooked up? Does ebook mode DTRT?
>> >
>> > Not yet, all the layouts are in and gtk2 works now
>>
>> Not quite all the layouts, but the vast majority are done in both
>> landscape and portrait. I have Türkçe, Українська, Việt, and 1 usable (out
>> of 3 due to the need of the others for a proprietary glyph composition
>> engine) Chinese keyboards still to do, and some general bug fixes on several
>> extended keys I spotted while testing. Expect an updated set of similar
>> patches before build lockdown. There is also still the hanging question with
>> regard for the need for additional keyboards for existing or potential
>> deployments. Armenia has been raised as one possible extra, but not yet
>> confirmed. Perhaps once XO-4's start to land and folks play with the OSK
>> we'll see some formal requests.
>>
>
> Are the layouts each in a distinct set of files? If so we could possibly
> split out layouts to standalone packages to make it easy to add extras at a
> later date.


One thought would be to add them to the langpack self-installing
scripts as needed so that a given langpack also carries the necessary
keyboard layout with it.

http://translate.sugarlabs.org/langpacks/

cjl



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