Re: [GOK] gok and gnome 3.0

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

Hi,

Interesting thread.

Ben Konrath wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
> > I'd also be in favor of moving GOK to Python. I don't have any
> > experience with pyatspi, but from the list above this seems like a good
> > way forward. It would also be an opportunity to renew the code base in
> > general and make it easier to integrate new features.
>
> Great! Barring any strong opinions to counter all our pro-python
> chatter, I'll start working on this.

Since you are looking to port gok to python, you might be interested in
having a look at the onscreen keyboard onboard:
- It is written in python (except the part about the virtual codes)
- It uses gconf
- It uses gettext for translation

It does not use at-spi, as it does not offer any features
requiring it. In fact, at the moment it is a simple onscreen keyboard
that fits the requirements of pointer users; it does not have switch
support, nor does it offer gui grabbing and the other advanced features
of gok.

Perhaps it could make sense to create a new branch in onboard with the
aim of letting it evolve to become the "python-gok" instead of starting
from scratch; but I don't have the knowledge to evaluate whether onboard
could really be a good candidate for it.

Here is onboard:
https://launchpad.net/onboard

Here is virtkey that onboard uses to create the virtual keypresses:
https://launchpad.net/virtkey


Cheers

Francesco