[kde-edu]: Need help revising KTouch keyboards

[Dan Borne]

I figured Jeremy would do Dvorak. ;)

I shall try to get on it.


On 9/26/07, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 17:02:52 Dan Borne wrote:
> > Who would know what layouts are supported now?
> >
> > I finally have been relieved of school work enough to do something..
>
> :) nice! You would need KTouch from KDE4 and all keyboard files which
> don't
> have the .xml extension are not ported. I ported French and Dvorak French
> and
> Jeremy ported Dvorak English.
> What you need to do is use the keyboard editor to edit the old keyboard
> layout
> (without .xml) and work from there.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Anne-Marie
>
> > 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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> > > > Syracuse, NY, 13244
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