Iok-1.2.0 released

Parag Nemade pnemade at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 04:46:46 UTC 2009


Hi all,
iok 1.2.0 is now available for download at:
    https://fedorahosted.org/releases/i/o/iok/iok-1.2.0.tar.gz
    http://downloads.sf.net/iok/iok-1.2.0.tar.gz

iok-1.2.0.tar.gz  md5sum: 26758cfa9fe2d9282885636f019eb84f
This is a bug fix as well as UI enhancement release in the 1.2 series.

What is iok
============

iok is Indic Onscreen Keyboard. It currently shows Inscript keymaps for 
following Indian languages.Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, 
Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Oriya, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu.

Using drop down menu you can select any of above supported Indian 
language. Drop down menu listing depends on available inscript keymaps 
at location /usr/share/m17n/. You can then start directly clicking on 
keys appearing in iok graphical interface. It will not only show you 
keyvalues(characters) for English keys on your QWERTY keyboard from 
selected inscript keymap but also allows you to send those characters to 
currently active window.

Currently, there is no Indic Onscreen Keyboard is available that will 
parse mim keymaps and allow to type in Indian languages. This 
application is using inscript maps installed in /usr/share/m17n 
directory. If no inscript maps found in /usr/share/m17n then this 
application will work as English on screen keyboard. Iok also supports 
default keymap loading based on current locale and its inscript map 
availability in /usr/share/m17n.

Other functionality this application provides is customization of system 
installed inscript map. User can swap 2 English key values and also can 
reassign some other new character to existing key in keypair (Key,Value) 
from existing inscript map and write new keymaps which can be used after 
restarting application. New feature has been added to iok that will 
graphically swap 2 English key values in a inscript keymap by just 
dragging first key button over second button.

Users can now use their own favourite keymaps other than inscript 
provided those keymaps MUST be written for single English key to 
character pair.

iok is hosted at following locations
    http://iok.sourceforge.net and
    https://fedorahosted.org/iok

Overview of Changes from iok 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
==============================================
- Added new feature of DragNDrop buttons on keyboard UI.
  This is additional to swap dialog. This DragNDrop will
  be helpful for instant keyvalues swapping for keyboard
  buttons.
- Enable partial parsing for kn-kgp.mim keymap

Regards,
Parag.





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