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

[Bill Haneman]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 11:57, amth wrote:
> 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?
> 

Hi Amth:

You might want to take a look at gok, the "GNOME" Onscreen Keyboard
(http://www.gok.ca/    http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/AT/GOK/)

GOK's current GNOME dependencies are pretty minor, and it has a lot of
powerful features including dynamic keyboard creation, UI extraction
from apps (via AT-SPI), etc.  It also functions as a more 'basic'
virtual keyboard that works with any X-based application.

In an embedded environment it would be easy to patch GOK so that the key
synthesis used something other than XTest.

GOK was designed with accessibility in mind, but of course the ability
to do on-the-fly word and command prediction would be great for lots of
other uses as well.

regards,

Bill

> 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
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