Re: [dev] [svkbd] Touchtyping made easier.

Hi

thanks for your work zwanni ;)

2011/3/24 Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net>:
> Hello comrades,
>
> attached is some strange form of mercurial communication patch
> bomb, which they call a »bundle«. This one includes 15 change-
> sets, which will increase your svkbd experience.
>
> Changes:
> * The basic window variables wh, ww, wx and wy are exported to
>  the configuration file.
Moved this back to svkbd.c. Instead I improved the algorithm for
calculating the windows height. If your experience problems with this
approach, I'll consider moving it back to config.def.h
> * Layouts now reside in the »layouts» directory. You can simply
>  do »make clean; LAYOUT=de make« and it will compile the now
>  included German layout.
Good idea. I changed this a little bit. use "make svkbd.en", "make
svkbd.de", "make svkbc.arrows" to compile (make defaults to
layout.en.h).

> * Rectangle drawing has been fixed. Now the rectanges are com-
>  pletely drawn.
thx, applied.

> * There are now commandline options for setting the basic win-
>  dow variables on the commandline. This is useful, when the
>  basic layout is set to be at the bottom, but the keyboard
>  should be above your dwm status bar.
applied in a simplified way.

> * I have added the arrow layout, which was proposed some time
>  ago on the mailinglist.
applied.

> More ideas:
> * Svkbd should have a rectangle (key), which will move svkbd,
>  when it is pressed and held. That rectangle could be used
>  for minimizing it somehow to a small one row line, which
>  will maxime it again, when you press it. There should be
>  a key for quitting it too.
> * In wide screen mode decrease the client space, when svkbd is
>  open. (Solely a dwm change.)
managing svkbd window should be the window managers job. I added a
switch in config.def.h (wmborder) to decide if it should be managed by
the wm or not.

Personally, I prefer a even simpler approach: opening svkbd in
hardcoded window geometry an let the wm care about the rest. Call me
lazy, I don't care :P

In the long term I would love to see X11 dying anyway. ;)

regards
Enno
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