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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: virtual keyboard in KDE4?
From:       LiuCougar <liucougar () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-12-16 18:06:43
Message-ID: 955806780612161006p62ae2073ve77b2398497b1e28 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I assume this kind of support should also go into the unified
keyboard/IME support in kde4

On 12/16/06, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well the that did the onscreen keyboard for gnome has some code that
> takes the keymap and turns it into svg instructions.
>
> You are right that the devil is in the details.  I really hope that Qt
> won't have the same problems that gnome had (trouble with combo boxes
> collapsing etc when the user uses the onscreen keyboard)
>
> I've been pretty busy working on ksysguard though.  Anyone is free to
> hire me heh, but otherwise I will try to get round to it.
>
> John Tapsell
>
> On 16/12/06, Stefan Kombrink <katakombi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >Not that I know of but John Tapsell was talking about porting Ubuntu's
> > >onboard screen keyboard to Qt 4.
> >
> > What keyboard do you mean - xkbd?
> > I think It's not too difficult to do it from scratch, but the devil is
> > in the details:
> >
> >  * must be reasonable small (font)
> >  * toggleable by system tray icon
> >  * send resize/move events to running application windows to avoid coverage
> >
> > I assume to achieve the ladder it's neccessary to implement it in KDE
> > instead of Qt?
> >
> >  Stefan >8^)
> >
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