Florence
Florence is a scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when you don't need it. It is useful if you can't use a real keyboard either because of a handicap, disease, broken keyboard, or tablet PC but you can use a pointing device. It aims at being easy and pretty.
| Tags | Desktop Environment GNOME |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 08 Jul 2009 21:31
Changes: Now the XKB extension is optional: the --without-xkb configure option will disable it. The at-spi registry daemon has also been made optional. You can disable it with the --without-at-spi option at configure time. This will disable auto-hide mode, as this mode does not work without the at-spi registry daemon. A new layout file is available. Many bugs have been fixed.
- 17 Apr 2009 18:17
Changes: Florence now collaborates with the real keyboard. There is a new startup notification giving some basic informations on Florence usage. Now style changes are applied immediately so that you can see the result directly. Windows gravity is set to static so that it does not move when you switch the decorated flag. Key labels have been Internationalized and localized in French.
- 17 Mar 2009 20:54
Changes: The configuration dialog has been revamped with tabs. It is cleaner, easier to understand, and easier to find options. This allows for adding many future options while keeping it simple. One option has been added in the window tab to make the keyboard semi-transparent. Two other options have been added to make auto-hide experience better. The first is the move_to_widget options, which was always on before. You can now disable it and prevent the keyboard from moving to the selected widget (this is now the default). The second is the intermediate icon option, which makes Florence less intrusive when you just want to read a document and not edit it with the keyboard. Enable this option and a small icon will appear instead of the keyboard. Just click on that icon to make the actual keyboard appear. Many bugs concerning auto-hide mode have been fixed, so this mode is now fairly usable (still only with AT-SPI enabled applications, meaning all GTK apps, Firefox, Openoffice, Java apps, and some others). The XML files and implementation method for reading them have been cleaned up. It is easier to extend and take less space on disk. The code has also been cleaned up to use less memory, be more robust, and be more efficient. As a result, resizing the window is a little smoother.
- 20 Feb 2009 22:06
Changes: The project has been internationalized with gettext and localized in French. Some minor bugs have been fixed.
- 24 Jan 2009 20:30
Changes: This release focuses on usability. The settings dialog has changed to allow more control over visual settings. The zoom scrollbar has been replaced with the ability to resize the window more naturally from the window manager.
