Re: help needed for OSK layout files



HI

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Mathieu Bridon <bochecha fedoraproject org> wrote:
Hi,

On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 15:49 +0900, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There is a long-standing request that gnome-shell OSK should respect
> system's keyboard layout[1].  Though actually it works already, we are
> still missing the majority of layout files (see
> /usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/*.xml; there are only 3).  I'd like to
> call for more layout files submitted, hopefully in the 3.16 cycle.
>
> I understand that writing a layout file from scratch is an uphill task.
> On the other hand, the Unicode CLDR repository provides an extensive set
> of OSK layouts for platforms including Android, Chrome OS, and Mac OS X.
>
> So, as a first step, I wrote a procedure for creating a layout file
> based on the CLDR data:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Caribou/NewLayout
>
> If you come up with a new layout, please file it against the 'caribou'
> product on bugzilla.  I have no expertise in design but should be able
> to do a quick review.

>Would it make sense to add Caribou layouts for input methods?

>For example, the Cangjie input method uses the en_US layout. However, it
>associates a Chinese radical to each Latin letter on the en_US layout.

>We can't do that with physical keyboards, but with an OSK, it could be
>nice to display not the Latin letters in such a case, but instead the
>Chinese radicals associated to each?

I am not sure that is would be possible or not, because we have more than 2500 Chinese characters and in some cases users forms complex Chinese characters with combination of other characters. 

--
A. P.


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