[Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 09:24:49 EST 2013


What about a virtual touch keyboard layout?  Just wondering?

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Basanta Shrestha
<basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
> Hi Walter
> We don't have plans to use stickers at the moment. The stickers won't last
> long in the hands of kids. But we need to have some mechanism to input
> Nepali characters. For now we can give them a printout of the keyboard
> layout.
> Regards,
> Basanta
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> A bit tricky because we don't have that key anymore (but we could come
>> up with some other key combination to enable it). Also, are you
>> planning to use stickers or some other way to add the proper glyths to
>> the keyboard?
>>
>> Happy to explore this with you further.
>>
>> regards.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Basanta Shrestha
>> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am writing this mail seeking a clue on where to start looking to
>> > enable
>> > Nepali input in XO4. For XO-1 we had nepali keyboard and there was a
>> > button
>> > just below the "enter" button which would switch input between English
>> > and
>> > Nepali. And that was very convenient.
>> >
>> > But for XO-4 we will just be getting ones with English layout. I was
>> > wondering how we can enable nepali keyboard input on it. I can see that
>> > the
>> > key maping file for nepali is already there under
>> > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
>> >
>> > Thank you .
>> >
>> > --
>> > Basanta Shrestha
>> > OLE Nepal
>> >
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>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
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>
>
>
>
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