[kde-edu]: Need help revising KTouch keyboards

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On Thursday 27 September 2007 16:34:54 Dan Borne wrote:
> I figured Jeremy would do Dvorak. ;)
>
> I shall try to get on it.

Short doc with a few screenshots at
http://edu.kde.org/ktouch/kde4/keyboards-layouts.php

Thanks for helping!

Anne-Marie

> 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
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