A prototype virtual keyboard to the tablet XO3
Samy, June 17, 2010
We have just learned that the developers of Sugar Labs , makers of the Sugar educational platform, working on a prototype keyboard:
This prototype should prefigure the virtual keyboard of the shelf 3 of the OLPC XO, which we know will have a touch screen (see " Partnership Marvell / OLPC to XO-3: decryption ").
An ISO image of the system SOAS ( Sugar on a Stick ) is downloaded to test this feature.
A screencast video shows the prototype, which should allow multiple keyboard layouts, multilingual and Multifunction.
The developer, Sayamindu Dasgupta , to whom we owe this prototype promising appreciate any feedback and contributions (see " Features / Onscreen Keyboard ").
Source: Sugar-Devel List
Features / Onscreen Keyboard
The XO 1.75, which is the successor of the XO 1.5 and XO 3's predecessor, will be based on Fedora for ARM ( http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-July/ 025376.html ). It will use Open Firmware and has a multitouch keyboard.