Re: help needed for OSK layout files

[Daiki Ueno <ueno gnu org>]

Mathieu Bridon <bochecha fedoraproject org> writes:

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

In the future, perhaps.  Currently, we are collecting layouts which have
corresponding entries in XKB.

> 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?

Though some extra machinery would be needed in gnome-shell, IBus, or
engines, there is a bug toward allowing libcaribou consumers to supply
such "artificial" layouts:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688149
The first step was to slim down libcaribou into a simple layout loader,
by removing dependencies on at-spi, X11, etc.

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno