Kvkbd - KDE4

Kvkbd is a virtual keyboard for KDE, it contains many feature like system tray and dock support, autodetection and on the fly change of the keyboard layout, scripting with DBus, etc.

This version was originally released with Kubuntu 8.10 but I was delaying it's official release until some issues could be solved(see below). Due to a lack of time I'm releasing it here because it's usable and works well.

KNOWN ISSUE(see README for full list):
- Launching Kvkbd with KDM4 doesn't work(and doesn't with any app at all in fact). I've been trying to solve that with the KDM maintainer but we still haven't found a good solution unfortunately.

0.6
* Fix behaviour of the caps lock, num lock, alt gr and shift keys(thanks to Scott for his Caps Lock patch!)
* Repeating keys by pressing a button for a long amount of time now works correctly
* Correctly save the configuration options
* Remember if the extent was visible when closing and display it at the next start if it's the case
* Added semantic markup to the i18n() calls
* Added a hack so that keys "^" and "¨" are displayed correcly, at least on azerty keyboards
* Correctly displays the "&" key(previously it only worked if it was accessible using the Shift key)
* The numpad doesn't go beyond the screen edge when enabled near the right of the screen
* Added a DBUS Interface
* Use kdelibs coding style
* Bug fixes and code cleanup
* 0.5.99 regressions fixed:
- The dock now show/hide the widget only when it is clicked, not dragged
- Memleaks fixes (thanks to Laurent Montel!)
- Update the keyboard mapping if xmodmap/setxkbmap changes it

0.5.99(only released for Kubuntu Intrepid Alpha)
* KDE4 port
* Use a double arrow icon instead of ">>" for the button to show/hide the numpad
* Display a 4 arrows cursor when dragging the keyboard
* Various bug fixes and code cleanup
* User manual for Kvkbd

0.5
* added lock function in settings menu to make app window stay locked on the screen.
* right button clicking behave as if shift is clicked.

0.4.9
* new dcop commands docw_show, docw_hide, docw_state query and toggle the dockwidget state

0.4.8
* dcop scripting fixes, now implements show, hide and state functions. Usage 'dcop kvkbd kvkbd' to see all functions. 'dcop kvkbd kvkbd "show()"' to show the widget explicitly.
* Fix to correctly save and restore the visibility state of the keyboard widget.

0.4.7
* new button to popup the dockmenu, helping users without right click.
* Store/Restore position of the keyboard on screen.

0.4.6
* bugfix when started without x running. Confirm working with KDM and --loginhelper option passed (tested in kubuntu)

0.4.5
* Auto font size implemented
* Button repeating function.

0.4
* Resizable/Moveable main window. Numeric/Cursor pad layer. Additional dcop command - toggle

0.3.1
* dcop commands added:
- use dcop kvkbd kvkbd show and dcop kvkbd kvkbd hide to toggle visibilty

0.3
* First run syncing with current choosen keyboard layout
* Font configuration implemented
* "-loginhelper" option to be used on KDM/XDM screen (an entry should be added in Xsetup if you want kvkbd on the login screen - kvkbd -loginhelper -display :0)
* Caps/Shift mode updates for non latin keyboards.
* Systray left mouse button update as requested

0.2
* characters on the virtual keyboard are now changed to the right characters when the localization of the keyboard (e.g. US->CZ) is changed.
* Dock widget tolerant to pen press

0.1
* Initial version