SOK: The plan as I see it

Chris Jones cej105 at soton.ac.uk
Sun May 14 12:14:03 UTC 2006


The Keyboard itself we be rendered using Cairo.

Instead of trying a one size fits all solution using only xlib and
cairo, we target Gnome.  We keep the keyboard rendering and AT-SPI
related code as separate as possible to make porting to other toolkits
easier.

No GOK code will be used since it would not give us much benefit over
the  AT-SPI bindings and would complicate things significantly.

Keyboard layout will probably be much more fine-grained than GOK and
using GOK's xml files will limit us feature-wise.  Extending the GOK
xml wouldn't be much use since it would not be backwards compatable to
GOK itself.  Our application should use it's own xml file format and
be able to convert from GOK's format to it's own.

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Chris Jones

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