Talk:OLPC Devanagari Keyboard

Notes for the next update : some of the keys on the right-hand side of the keyboard aren't centered (devanagari chars are left and a bit below optimal), and the upper-right key should have perhaps 90%-reduced chars to fit. 01:44, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

Glyph alignment

Some options re glyph alignment. Please comment.

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  Offset, but aligned

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  Aligning horizontally, but distorting characters vertically

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  Maximum size, but ignoring horizontal and vertical alignments

--Walter 12:09, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

Regarding the vertical alignment, the top two options represent the correct vertical alignment and the third one represents an incorrect vertical alignment. --Arjs 13:58, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

Not sure why the image captions weren't showing up before. Is vertical alignment more important than glyph size? Is horizontal alignment important? --Walter 14:19, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

Vertical alignment is highly important - first and second ones are examples of correct vertical alignment (Vertical alignment is more important than glyph size). Horizontal alignment is also important. IMHO second one (the one in the center) is the best. However, we should get more feedback on this, I have written on OLPC-India mailing list requesting feedback.--Arjs 15:44, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

There is a 4th option: use a font size that will allow all characters to fit. AlbertCahalan 17:05, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

Switching between two keyboard modes

One can switch between two keyboard layouts/modes by pressing the key which is below Enter key and to the right of the up-arrow key.

Adding a new font to Sugar

To add a new font, put the font in /usr/share/fonts/ and rebuild the font cache by

fc-cache -f