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在 2012年5月19日 星期六 08:18:09，Cedric Sodhi 写道： > Hello, > > does anyone have an opinion on how GTK can be made accessible to > keyboard-free input? Or should it not? > > As a tablet user on LInux, I'm left with tricks and patching together > something that somehow works. A.t.m. I'm using Cellwriter which has a > try icon in Tint2 - every time I need to write something, I click the > tray Icon. > > From what I've gathered, Cellwriter's recognition provides a pluggable > API, I'm therefore planning to write my own virtual keyboard (for > Cellwriter's is less than rudimentary) and employ Cellwriter's > recognition API. > > While this will hopefully yield a comfortable GTK onScreenKeyboard > (minimalistic and functional, compared to solutions such as onBoard), it > does not really solve the problem of how to invoke the tool. > > Windows 7 has a good implementation of keyboard-free entry, imho. > Specifically, every input field, when accessed with either the pen or > the finger, pops-up a small link to open either the OSK or the > Handwriting-Recognizer (HWR). > > I hoped, something similar would be possible for Gtk/GNOME - it will > have to be done sooner or later, tablets are taking a dominant market > share and Android is not always an option. > > Similar to Windows, I thought, GTK could offer a tooltip-like link to > bring up an OSK or HWR, depending on by which Input Device the mouse is > currently moved. > > So if you click with the mouse into a GtkEntry, nothing happens. If you > tap with the finger, a small icon allows you to bring up the OSK. If you > click with the pen, a small icon allows you to bring up the HWR. > > Surely, this would have to be integral part of Gtk, would it not? I > could not imagine how something could "plug into" Gtk (without the means > of LD_PRELOAD or similar) do achieve that - it would instead have to be > integrated into Gtk's Code. > > What about allowing a entry in /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini > > > _OnScreenKeyboard_ = /usr/bin/cellwriter -k %x %y > HandwritingRecongizer = /usr/bin/cellwriter -h %x %y > > which determines which tooltips-links (if any) start which application? > In detail (although this is just meant as a preliminary example), %x and > %y would be replaced by the position of the GtkEntry on-screen (so that > the OSK/HWR could place itsself next to the cursor). Other "parameters" > could aswell be possible, such as "%s" which would pass the current > value of the GtkEntry, etc. > > It shouldn't be difficult to implement that in Gtk - after all, there is > only a limited number of GtkEditables. > > Do you have any ideas, suggestions, or objections? > > regards, > Cedric >
This should be implemented on input method[1] side.
Actually all required interface are already in Gtk, and can be implemented easily. There are some existing input method frameworks targeting for on-screen keyboard.
Here is a demostration of Maliit[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_7f3Lxd4_I
And Caribou[3] is also likely to working on this in the future.
But totally keyboard free solution should be up to application to change some of the behavior.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method [2] https://wiki.maliit.org/Main_Page [3] https://live.gnome.org/Caribou |
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