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 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
