Re: help needed for OSK layout files

[Mathieu Bridon <bochecha fedoraproject org>]

On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 15:46 +0530, anish patil wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Mathieu Bridon
> <bochecha fedoraproject org> wrote:
>         >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. 

I know.

That's why I was talking about a specific example (Cangjie), where each
key has a specific character associated to it.

Combinations of characters are a second thing, which is already handled
by the rest of the stack (IBus, engines, GNOME Shell to display the
candidates popup and the preedit/auxiliary texts,...)


-- 
Mathieu