SOK: The plan as I see it

[Michal Chruszcz]

It seems like on Sunday 14 May 2006 23:01, Henrik Nilsen Omma typed:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > The Keyboard itself we be rendered using Cairo.
> >
> > Instead of trying a one size fits all solution using only xlib and
> > cairo, we target Gnome.  We keep the keyboard rendering and AT-SPI
> > related code as separate as possible to make porting to other toolkits
> > easier.
> >
> > No GOK code will be used since it would not give us much benefit over
> > the  AT-SPI bindings and would complicate things significantly.
> >
> > Keyboard layout will probably be much more fine-grained than GOK and
> > using GOK's xml files will limit us feature-wise.  Extending the GOK
> > xml wouldn't be much use since it would not be backwards compatable to
> > GOK itself.  Our application should use it's own xml file format and
> > be able to convert from GOK's format to it's own.
>
> Sounds like a good plan. I would add that we write it in pure python
> unless a very good reason comes along for using some C.
>
> So to summarise the summary:
>
>  * Python code from scratch
>  * Cairo rendering of keys
>  * Use the GTK toolkit, but as little as possible
>  * Native XML keyboard format
>  * Use AT-SPI as appropriate
>  * Implement our own sticky keys solution
>
> Hey folks, that's Milestone 0 done!

Indeed it is. And it is a good plan. However I find one point missing - GOK 
XML keyboard format converter.
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