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== Benefit to Fedora ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==
Typing booster supports following languages:-
Typing booster supports following languages:-
1: English
*1: English
2: Hindi
*2: Hindi
3: Marathi
*3: Marathi
4: Bengali
4: Bengali
5: Urdu
5: Urdu

Revision as of 07:30, 20 June 2012

Typing-Booster

Summary

Typing Booster is a predictive input method for the ibus platform. It predicts complete words based on partial input. One can then simply select the desired word from a list of suggestions and improve one's typing speed and spelling.

Owner(s)

  • Name: Anish Patil
  • Name: apatil@redhat.com

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 18
  • Last updated: Wed June 20 2012
  • Percentage of completion: 70%

Detailed Description

The goal is to provide an efficient completing input method that will assist users while typing text.

Boost: Within few keystrokes user gets the desire word within the list. It saves user's typing and makes typing faster. e.g For typing word "wordnet", it requires three 6 key strokes. With Typing Booster it requires only three keystrokes.

Easiness: No need to learn new method or technology.  User can add/delete new words into the user dictionary. New words will get added automatically.

Accuracy: Since the suggestions come from a validated hunspell dictionaries, the selected words always give 100% accurate spelling.

Benefit to Fedora

Typing booster supports following languages:-

  • 1: English
  • 2: Hindi
  • 3: Marathi

4: Bengali 5: Urdu 6: Farsi 7: Nepali 8: French 9: Dannish 10:Oriya 11:Telgu 12: Tamil 13: Punjabi 14: Gujrathi 15: Maithili 16: Assami 17: Kannada

Typing booster will enhance the text creation process, and end users will be able to type more accurately and faster with this input method. Typing booster offers features such as, prediction of words (auto-completion), suggestions of words:suggestions are by frequency of use.

This feature will give Fedora users a interesting, more modern input experience.

Scope

Develop initial version of ibus-european-table. [done] Submit package for review and build. [done] Test in rawhide and updates-testing. [in progress] Fix bugs reported [in progress]

Test Plan

  • Addition/installation of input method
    • sudo yum install ibus-hunspell-table -y
    • Run im-chooser (Input method selector) and select ibus
    • Right click on desktop panel's ibus icon -> select preference -> click on input method
    • Choose English(US) - Hunspell from English language submenu
  • Testing the appication
    • Open any text creation application
    • Click on ibus icon and select English(US) - Hunspell to start typing-booster for English language

Enjoy! and report any bugs or suggestions!

User Experience

Users have a new predictive input method which allows them to write in different languages with completion. It is particularly convenient for typing longer unfamiliar words. Boost in typing process with accurate spellings.

Dependencies

  • No other packages depend on this.
  • Upstream is maintained by feature owner

Contingency Plan

Documentation

Release Notes

  • Typing booster is a predictive text input method for different languages. It enhances user typing experience.