[Sugar-devel] [Design] On Screen Keyboard – part of the 'get Sugar touch ready' feature set

[Chris Leonard]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The key layout is a more complicated affair as it requires modification of XML files for each language layout [1], so I'd rather lock down an agreed layout before I start trying to apply them to 40+ different languages – and yes I plan to script the edits as far as I can ;) FWIW, looks like this will be a patch set we need to apply to out builds as although maliit supports custom styles (olpc-xo is the one they added for us), their layouts are shared between all styles, so they would be unlikely to accept patches from us wanting to modify them all for Sugar's needs.
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> [1] https://gitorious.org/maliit/maliit-plugins/trees/master/maliit-keyboard/data/languages

I like the most recent version well enough,

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Maliit_Sugar_theme_work_13.png

I'm a little concerned that the absence of the
Home/Friends/Neighborhood/World quartet of XO specific keys will be
missed, but I understand that it is tough to collapse 6 rows of XO
keys into 4 rows for Maliit.

I've got lots of other questions, but they are more i18n related, so
I'll forego inserting them into this design thread, but I can't resist
throwing one out there.

Is there currently a mechanism for re-creating the many xkb-based
layouts already designed for OLPC that never got silkscreened?

 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_layouts

cjl