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

[Pupeno]

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As Bill said, there's already a very advanced on screen keyboard called GOK=
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Gnome On-screen Keyboard and there are plans to make a KOSK some day too, K=
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On Screen Keyboard or something like that.
The needs for a PDA are a bit diferent, but one very versatily and featuref=
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on screen keyboard could be made for everything, but, be aware of this:
1) GOK uses AT-SPI for comunication with other applications, KOSK would do =
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same and AT-SPI is not likely to be present in a PDA.
2) GOK, when there's not AT-SPI present, can still perform the basic=20
operations, like KOSK would do. That's becaus they use X11 to send=20
keystrokes, a PDA is not likely to use X11, no matter how advanced it is,=20
when the hardware enviroment is so well controled (like in a PDA, nobody=20
would use a diferent motherboard+graphic board including that it could be=20
ISA, PCI or AGP, and networking for it is not necesary, using X11 is a wast=
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of resources, framebuffer is much better, there are some people even=20
wondering about using framebuffer for workstations PCs).

The main issue here, is still, having AT-SPI support on KDE.
Carpe diem!

On Saturday 04 January 2003 06:57, 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?
>
> 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 usabili=
ty
> 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 operati=
ng
> 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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