[Kde-accessibility] Kicker virtual keyboard to KDE-3.2+?

amth amth@ziplip.com
Sat, 4 Jan 2003 03:57:59 -0800 (PST)


Just wondering could there be an virtual keyboard similar to gtkeyboard <http://www.gnu.org/software/gtkeyboard/> that would integrate to the KDE's Kicker?

Idea would be that you could input text with it to selected program on the taskbar, reason being that not all systems have physical keyboard (like mobile phones, PDAs, tablet PCs and so on) that would then enable usability of KDE (plain Qt-Embedded is not enought in the future) on future projects with more and more memory and graphics power (ATI is not going to be only manufacturer to emerge to the PDA market) in the industry.

Maybe after that there could be more systems using KDE as only GUI toolkit (full KDE system even being able to compile under Qt-Embedded?) for much more advanced handsets than those pesky embedded PocketPC or Palm operating systems...

In the other words, Qt/KDE really needs that ported graphical keyboard to enable more interest from mobile electronics designers that are forced to use some nasty hack to use Linux (like Sharp's Zaurus) with full KDE and/or Qt.


Thanks,
amth