2011/12/1 Samuel Stirtzel <s.stirt...@googlemail.com>: > 2011/12/1 Koen Kooi <k...@dominion.thruhere.net>: >> >> Op 1 dec. 2011, om 11:47 heeft Samuel Stirtzel het volgende geschreven: >> >>> Hi, >>> some devices like the Nokia N900 or the OpenPandora provide a hardware >>> keyboard, >>> other devices need USB keyboards to operate, but how could a user >>> input text into a touchscreen-only device? >>> >>> >>> #1. The situation >>> >>> Portable devices with a touchscreen usually provide virtual keyboards, >>> looking around in OE-dev and OE-Core, >>> there is illume-keyboard but i doubt it can be used with XFCE that easily. >>> >>> To tell the user that he has to buy a (small) hardware keyboard to use >>> a touchscreen device isn't an "appropriate" solution, >>> if you know what I mean ;) >>> >>> >>> >>> #2. What was already discovered >>> >>> There are plenty of virtual keyboards out there, for example: >>> -gok (gnome on-screen keyboard) [1] >>> -kvkbd (kde virtual keyboard) [2] >>> -illume-keyboard (e17 enlightenment on-screen-keyboard add-on) [3] >>> -onboard (generic on-screen keyboard) [4] >>> -(Qt) Colibri (in application virtual keyboard) [5] >>> -(Qt/Gtk2/Gtk3) Maliit (in application virtual keyboard) [6] >> >> Don't forget matchbox-keyboard and matchbox-keyboard2 :) > > Right I forgot about it, sorry. > > So the new list is as follows: > > #2. What was already discovered > > There are plenty of virtual keyboards out there, for example: > -gok (gnome on-screen keyboard) [1] > -kvkbd (kde virtual keyboard) [2] > -illume-keyboard (e17 enlightenment on-screen-keyboard add-on) [3] > -onboard (generic on-screen keyboard) [4] > -(Qt) Colibri (in application virtual keyboard) [5] > -(Qt/Gtk2/Gtk3) Maliit (in application virtual keyboard) [6] > -matchbox-keyboards (matchbox wm virtual keyboard) [7] > > #5. Appendix > > [1] gok: http://www.gok.ca/ > [2] kvkbd: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=94374 > [3] illume: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Illume > [4] onboard: https://launchpad.net/onboard > [5] colibri: https://projects.developer.nokia.com/colibri (note: site > currently in maintenance) > [6] maliit: https://wiki.maliit.org/Main_Page > [7] matchbox-keyboard: http://matchbox-project.org/ (note: the site > seems to currently get reworked, so I got no direct link)
My list of virtual keyboards includes also: * xvkbd http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/ * qvkeyboard http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/QVKeyboard?content=77983 * Florence http://florence.sourceforge.net/english.html * GTKeyboard http://www.gnu.org/software/gtkeyboard/gtkeyboard.html * Literki http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Literki And "hybrid" input methods: * Dasher http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ * QWO http://www.nongnu.org/qwo/ -- Yury Bushmelev _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core