I18N/Virtual Keyboards

Virtual Keyboards

Links taken from http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/ScreenKeyboard .

There are quite a number of on-screen keyboards and utilities for input besides the keyboard and Input Methods. Some of them are listed here:

Keyboards

• Eekboard http://ueno.github.com/eekboard/
• Florence http://florence.sourceforge.net/english.html
• IOK https://fedorahosted.org/iok/
• Matchbox keyboard http://matchbox-project.org/?p=1

Input tools

• Input pad http://code.google.com/p/input-pad/ and ibus-input-pad

The input pad is a tool to send a character on button to text applications. The command input-pad is a standalone application and ibus-input-pad provides input-pad on IBus (input method)

This application can sends several characters:

   * symbol table (¢, £, ¥)
   * number table (Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ)
   * technical unit table (℃, ℉, ㎞)
   * arrow table (←, ↑, →, ↓)
   * chat smiley table (:), :-), :-D)
   * HTML char reference table (&, ", <, >)
   * date command table
   * code point dialog
   * keysym with keyboard layout (Zenkaku_Hankaku, Ctrl+Space, NumLock)
   * XKB layout via libxklavier
   * $HOME/.config/pad support for user directory 

• GNOME gucharmap
• scim-input-pad

Handwritten input

• Cellwriter http://risujin.org/cellwriter/
• Zinnia
• Tomoe

Accessibility

• Caribou http://live.gnome.org/Caribou
• Dasher http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
• GOK http://www.gok.ca/
• Onboard https://launchpad.net/onboard/