Google Summer of Code 06 - A Simplified Onscreen Keyboard

[Michal Chruszcz]

It seems like on Wednesday 10 May 2006 18:08, Henrik Nilsen Omma typed:
> I also like the idea of not locking ourselves to the GOK keyboard file
> format, but do a one-time conversion. That would also give us a chance
> to automatically remove data we don't need, like the numeric keypad and
> function keys. The reason we need to do this at all is that GOK has
> literally hundreds of existing layouts.

This is one approach. Before writing my application on this topic I was 
thinking on a fairly different approach. Namely I was thinking about 
unlimited combining of keyboard layouts. We could design layouts with parts 
of standard keyboard layout (e.g. one with letters and modifier keys, one 
with function keys, one with numpad) and load them independently without 
limiting ourselves to only one loaded at a moment. This approach would 
result in very easy and intuitive switching on and off different parts of 
the keyboard. This solution is capable of reusing current GOK XML keyboard 
layout definition format. Of course I don't see any fact why we shouldn't 
extend it, but on the other hand I don't know why we should, either, at the 
moment.
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