Announcing two new software input mechanisms - Matchbox keyboard and stroke
matchbox-keyboard is the much promised rewrite of xkbd.Its a lightweight software or ‘virtual’ keyboard for X improving much on my original ‘xkbd’. Features include easy flexible XML configuration of layouts, international support, low footprint and few dependencies. It also scales to larger displays much better than the original xkbd.
For more info see the README
matchbox-stroke
is another software input method which is stroke based. Its very much based on ideas from xstroke but with XML based stroke configuration, better international support and both fullscreen and input window modes. There is no screenshot as yet, but koen
kindly made a small video of it running on his Zaurus.
Both matchbox-stroke and matchbox-keyboard have not yet achieved a 0.1 release and exist only in the matchbox subversion repository currently ( See here for info on building from subversion ).
matchbox-keyboard is fully useable and close to a 0.1 release. matchbox-stroke is still a little rough around the edges and needs more strokes configured but basically works. Im announcing early so people can test, provide feedback and hopefully supply alternate
configurations for the eventual releases.
To build, they need a modern xlib, expat and libfakekey( also from subversion ). LibMatchbox is not currently required. Both matchbox-stroke and matchbox-keyboard are available under the GPL.
