Re: Keyboard-Free accessibility of GTK

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Cedric Sodhi <manday gmx net> wrote:

> 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.

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> Do you have any ideas, suggestions, or objections?
>

The on-screen keyboard is really something that should be provided by
the OS or desktop you are operating in.
For GNOME, gnome-shell provides an osk since 3.2:
http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/OnScreenKeyboard
It is still somewhat rudimentary and could use some love and support,
but it exists and works, if you enable it.