Re: GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Nalin, do you have any news about this GSOC idea? The student proposal deadline is today... Samuel ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subsc

Re: GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-04 Thread Jens Petersen
> > On 02/03/2014 19:02, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > >Samuel Thibault, le Sun 02 Mar 2014 18:58:22 +0100, a écrit : > > >>At any rate, I'd happily mentor such a project! > > >Or maybe co-mentor it with somebody who has actually ever worked on an > > >input method module :) > > > > > >Samuel > > It

Re: GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-02 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 07:16:33PM +0100, Martin Peres wrote: > On 02/03/2014 19:02, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Samuel Thibault, le Sun 02 Mar 2014 18:58:22 +0100, a écrit : > >>At any rate, I'd happily mentor such a project! > >Or maybe co-mentor it with somebody who has actually ever worked on an

Re: GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
wettstein...@solnet.ch, le Sun 02 Mar 2014 19:59:22 +0100, a écrit : > There is some braille support in the compose mechanism in libX11, see > directory modules/im/ximcp. I do not know whether and how it works, > though. That is what I described, yues. > > 1. it is very simple, uses only six key

Re: GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-02 Thread wettstein509
There is some braille support in the compose mechanism in libX11, see directory modules/im/ximcp. I do not know whether and how it works, though. > 1. it is very simple, uses only six keys of the keyboard. It appears the implementation in libX11 uses eight keys, each one corresponds to one bit.

Re: GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-02 Thread Martin Peres
On 02/03/2014 19:02, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le Sun 02 Mar 2014 18:58:22 +0100, a écrit : At any rate, I'd happily mentor such a project! Or maybe co-mentor it with somebody who has actually ever worked on an input method module :) Samuel Peter, Would you be interested in co-

Re: GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 02 Mar 2014 18:58:22 +0100, a écrit : > At any rate, I'd happily mentor such a project! Or maybe co-mentor it with somebody who has actually ever worked on an input method module :) Samuel ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Arch

Re: GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Nalin.x.Linux, le Sun 02 Mar 2014 23:01:27 +0530, a écrit : > I would like to make braille extension for XKB(X keyboard extension). Interesting! > Let me know if any work in this regard has been undertaken by xorg and if so > let me know the existing position thanking you. There is alrea

GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

2014-03-02 Thread Nalin.x.Linux
I am Nalin from Kerala/India. I would like to make braille extension for XKB(X keyboard extension). Braille is a writing and reading system using six raised dots. As a night writing method of writing developed by Charles barbier, it has been perfected by louis braille. The most relevant feature of