[Kde-accessibility] Fwd: KDE 3.1 suggestion: gtkeyboard clone

[amth]

Hi, this email was first evaluated by Dirk Mueller and he suggested I would=
 forward it to this address...

Becource I can't pick up this thing myself right now Dirk suggested that pe=
rhaps someone in the accessibility-team could implement it (to wishlist atl=
east ;-).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: amth [mailto:amth@ziplip.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002, 12:08 AM
> To: mueller@kde.org
> Subject: KDE 3.1 suggestion: gtkeyboard clone
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> Hi, hopefully I sended this to right address (please don't flame me if no=
t)
> about suggestion of feature for KDE 3.1.
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> The one feature that would greatly benefit systems without physical keybo=
ard,
> like PDA/WDA of mobile phones, would be to include some sort of graphical
> (virtual) keybord to the system that could be used to input to some
> console/stdio.
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> Nowdays I can't find any great utility for that task other that very outd=
ated
> gtkeyboard <http://www.gnu.org/software/gtkeybord/> that does the job pre=
tty
> ugly but everyone needing such feature are stuck with that (notice that i=
t is
> included on some Linux distributions so other need it too).
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> So my suggested form for the KDE:
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> 1. Could it be "bonded" on any window for example same way as Mozilla's
> sidebar? (for example on the bottom centre could be small window resizer =
size
> handle?
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> 2. That pad could have separate "skins" for different programs like:
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> 2.1. Normal keyboard(s)
> 2.2. Media player interface
> 2.3. Visual braille console (check out brltty <http://dave.mielke.cc/brlt=
ty/>
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> 3. Totally separate function that is quite closely bonded to those featur=
es is
> speech synthesizer that would benefit for example lazy people waiting
> something to happen on some window or people visually impaired.
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> 4. As windows do differ in size maybe rendering the whole thing with SVG?
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> Good thing about that feature is that it should be easy to implement with=
out
> secrificing source compability and quite many programs could use it for
> implementing interfaces for the program that does not need to be visible =
all
> the time.
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> Oh, well... Just a suggestion that could be usefull for people with impai=
res
> so I bet KDE would get kudos for doing that. ;-)
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> Not to mention that those PDA/phones would benefit also and as we all try=
 to
> get Linux everywhere we can... ;-)
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> Thank you,
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> Arto Hyt=F6nen