Hello,
Progress is being made to incorporate a word completion feature with an onscreen keyboard into KDE (Plasma and Maliit). I think this would make KDE more accessible to disabled users. Packaging seems to be one of the issues (mainly Presage). For more info:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265452 http://mikhas.posterous.com/maliit-keyboard-now-with-word-prediction-and
Any help or feedback in getting this implemented in Fedora/KDE would be great.
Kyle
On 06/18/2012 09:25 AM, Kyle Pablo wrote:
Progress is being made to incorporate a word completion feature with an
onscreen keyboard into KDE (Plasma and Maliit). I think this would make KDE more accessible to disabled users. Packaging seems to be one of the issues (mainly Presage). For more info:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265452 http://mikhas.posterous.com/maliit-keyboard-now-with-word-prediction-and
Any help or feedback in getting this implemented in Fedora/KDE would be great.
I've no experience in implementing this sort of thing....or much of anything.
However, I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to implement this in a more general way so it can be used equally in KDE/GOME and any application.
Today, when using the ibus input method and Chinese you are presented with characters matching the input criteria. So, that makes me wonder it wouldn't make sense to make this part of an ibus extension.
At least for normal users it may make some sense. I know that on my Android pad the predictive keyboard makes typing easier. I think it would add functionality to the desktop.
I wonder why Presage didn't/doesn't go that route. It seems they may be relying on applications building in support for and being "Presage enabled".
Ed Greshko wrote:
I've no experience in implementing this sort of thing....or much of anything.
However, I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to implement this in a more general way so it can be used equally in KDE/GOME and any application.
Today, when using the ibus input method and Chinese you are presented with characters matching the input criteria. So, that makes me wonder it wouldn't make sense to make this part of an ibus extension.
Yeah, I think something based on IBus would make more sense for Fedora than something based on Presage. On the other hand, Maliit is what's out there right now.
At least for normal users it may make some sense. I know that on my Android pad the predictive keyboard makes typing easier. I think it would add functionality to the desktop.
I wonder why Presage didn't/doesn't go that route. It seems they may be relying on applications building in support for and being "Presage enabled".
As I understand it, Presage is yet another input method framework, competing against IBus. Now IBus was primarily intended for input of Asian characters, not for an on-screen keyboard, so it might not be the best solution here. On the other hand, those "typing boosters" for IBus already show predictive word completion on IBus, though not with an onscreen keyboard. But if I'm not mistaken, IBus's architecture is based a lot on key presses, which might not make it suitable for this purpose: I'd have to look at it more in depth to see whether it'd be reasonably technically possible to implement something like Maliit over IBus.
Kevin Kofler