the on-screen keyboard
We have an on-screen (or, if you prefer, virtual or software) keyboard for Plasma. It can run independently of the shell by way of the plasma-keyboardcontainer application (which we use in Plasma Active) or the Keyboard Plasmoid that comes as part of the kdeplasma-addons repository.
We've been working on may improvements to both the code and the user interface in the last few months. These include improving how it works with a hardware keyboard, being able to move it around the screen on a device, better performance, features like caps- and num-lock (by double-tapping the respective buttons).
There is much more we'd like to do with it, however. If you go to Plasma Active's open tasks page you can find a number of tasks open for the keyboard. This includes things like adding arrow keys to it (these are already supported in the code, we just need to enable them, in a nice way, in the tablet layout), adding locale support so people can easily get to their ü's and ç's, providing copy and paste functionality and more.
These are all bite-sized projects and the code is easily accessible in the Plasma Addons repository under applets/plasmaboard. The stand-alone shell is in the Plasma Mobile repository in the virtualkeyboard directory.
If you're looking for an easy way to get involved with Plasma development that will help Desktop, Netbook and Active simultaneously, look no further. This is a really nice little project to get started with, and we're happy to help you get your legs in the code. :) Thanks for reading: the on-screen keyboard
We've been working on may improvements to both the code and the user interface in the last few months. These include improving how it works with a hardware keyboard, being able to move it around the screen on a device, better performance, features like caps- and num-lock (by double-tapping the respective buttons).
There is much more we'd like to do with it, however. If you go to Plasma Active's open tasks page you can find a number of tasks open for the keyboard. This includes things like adding arrow keys to it (these are already supported in the code, we just need to enable them, in a nice way, in the tablet layout), adding locale support so people can easily get to their ü's and ç's, providing copy and paste functionality and more.
These are all bite-sized projects and the code is easily accessible in the Plasma Addons repository under applets/plasmaboard. The stand-alone shell is in the Plasma Mobile repository in the virtualkeyboard directory.
If you're looking for an easy way to get involved with Plasma development that will help Desktop, Netbook and Active simultaneously, look no further. This is a really nice little project to get started with, and we're happy to help you get your legs in the code. :) Thanks for reading: the on-screen keyboard
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