Tablet PC and Summer of Code

[Francesco Fumanti]

Hello,

>Would be cool to have at least the virtual keyboard, working nicely,
>and popping up when some text box etc. gets the focus. The handwriting
>recognition is so complicated thing that it might be better to
>concentrate on the virtual keyboard, which is pretty much lacking
>currently. Actually I tried some of the available ones and they were
>poor and their focus behaviour was really strange.

Ubuntu ships with a virtual keyboard, called onboard, written last 
SoC in python.

It does not have word prediction yet.

Did you have a look at it? Could it be a starting point for a 
keyboard that would suite your needs?

Francesco