[kde-edu]: Need help revising KTouch keyboards

Dan Borne danborne.kde at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 17:02:52 CEST 2007


Who would know what layouts are supported now?

I finally have been relieved of school work enough to do something..

On 9/24/07, Dennis Haney <davh at davh.dk> wrote:
>
> Does this have support for input methods? Like vietnamese, japanse,
> Chinese etc?
>
> 2007/9/24, Andreas Nicolai <Andreas.Nicolai at gmx.net>:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > the overhaul of KTouch's keyboard engine is complete, with an improved
> > layouting/drawing/accessing functionality and an included Keyboard
> editor.
> >
> > However, we noticed that quite a few of the keyboard layouts were
> > incorrect (wrong color codes/key placements) and are incomplete because
> of
> > the limitations of the previous keyboard engine. So we KTouch developers
> > would like to ask the community to take a look at the old layouts,
> convert
> > them into the new XML format and add missing key connectivities and
> > characters.
> >
> > Simply open the keyboard editor in KTouch, read in an old keyboard file
> > (the ones without the xml extension) and start editing:
> > - first the characters on each key
> > - then the color codings by assigning each key a finger key, note that
> the
> > top row of keys should be coded based on the local conventions - see for
> > example the german keyboard versus the american/english keyboard
> > - lastly check the connectors (which characters can be produced by
> > pressing a certain key)
> >
> > Please add the reviewed keyboards in XML format to the repository or
> send
> > them to Haavard and me.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for helping us out, here!
> >
> > Bye,
> > Andreas
> >
> > --
> > Andreas Nicolai                         anicolai at syr.edu
> > PhD Candidate, M.A.M.E                  (315) 443-2641
> > Syracuse University
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>
>
> --
> Dennis
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