[OE-core] RFC: On-screen- / virtual-keyboard

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 11:47 +0100, Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> Hi,
> some devices like the Nokia N900 or the OpenPandora provide a hardware
> keyboard,
> other devices need USB keyboards to operate, but how could a user
> input text into a touchscreen-only device?
> 
> 
> #1. The situation
> 
> Portable devices with a touchscreen usually provide virtual keyboards,
> looking around in OE-dev and OE-Core,
> there is illume-keyboard but i doubt it can be used with XFCE that easily.
> 
> To tell the user that he has to buy a (small) hardware keyboard to use
> a touchscreen device isn't an "appropriate" solution,
> if you know what I mean ;)
> 
> 
> 
> #2. What was already discovered
> 
> There are plenty of virtual keyboards out there, for example:
> -gok (gnome on-screen keyboard) [1]
> -kvkbd (kde virtual keyboard) [2]
> -illume-keyboard (e17 enlightenment on-screen-keyboard add-on) [3]
> -onboard (generic on-screen keyboard) [4]
> -(Qt) Colibri (in application virtual keyboard) [5]
> -(Qt/Gtk2/Gtk3) Maliit (in application virtual keyboard) [6]

OE-Core also includes matchbox-keyboard as part of sato. Its not perfect
but worth including in your list...

Cheers,

Richard