[Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

[Gary Martin]

On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:24, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about a virtual touch keyboard layout?  Just wondering?

FWIW: I'm pretty sure (check [1] & [2]) that Nepali layouts were not part of the Maliit set I was asked to work on for the XO-4 touch keyboard layouts. It's been over a year ago, and a lot of things were going on, so my memory is a little rusty.

If the XO-4's in question do have the touch screen hardware support, creating a layout file is not too difficult (as long as the required fonts glyphs are already installed). That is a beauty of touch screen keyboards, they may not be as good as tactile keyboards, but you can have almost any language layout you want with no hardware changes.

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit_Layouts
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User_talk:Garycmartin/Maliit#Currently_available_language_layouts

Regards,
--Gary

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Basanta Shrestha
> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>> Hi Walter
>> We don't have plans to use stickers at the moment. The stickers won't last
>> long in the hands of kids. But we need to have some mechanism to input
>> Nepali characters. For now we can give them a printout of the keyboard
>> layout.
>> Regards,
>> Basanta
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A bit tricky because we don't have that key anymore (but we could come
>>> up with some other key combination to enable it). Also, are you
>>> planning to use stickers or some other way to add the proper glyths to
>>> the keyboard?
>>> 
>>> Happy to explore this with you further.
>>> 
>>> regards.
>>> 
>>> -walter
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Basanta Shrestha
>>> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I am writing this mail seeking a clue on where to start looking to
>>>> enable
>>>> Nepali input in XO4. For XO-1 we had nepali keyboard and there was a
>>>> button
>>>> just below the "enter" button which would switch input between English
>>>> and
>>>> Nepali. And that was very convenient.
>>>> 
>>>> But for XO-4 we will just be getting ones with English layout. I was
>>>> wondering how we can enable nepali keyboard input on it. I can see that
>>>> the
>>>> key maping file for nepali is already there under
>>>> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you .
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Basanta Shrestha
>>>> OLE Nepal
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Walter Bender
>>> Sugar Labs
>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Basanta Shrestha
>> Network Engineer
>> Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
>> Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
>> Cell: +977.9818 605110
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