GSOC New idea - Braille extension for XKB

[Jens Petersen]

> > On 02/03/2014 19:02, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >Samuel Thibault, le Sun 02 Mar 2014 18:58:22 +0100, a écrit :
> > >>At any rate, I'd happily mentor such a project!
> > >Or maybe co-mentor it with somebody who has actually ever worked on an
> > >input method module :)
> > >
> > >Samuel
> 
> It sounds like an interesting project. I don't think I'm the right mentor
> for this though, I've done input only on the server side of things (with
> limited xkb stuff) and no experience in IM. Having said that, I think ibus
> is the way to go. Jens, do you have any detailed comments here?
> Do you want to or know someone who'd be willing to mentor this?

I would suggest discussing the idea also on the ibus mailing-list (group).
It is an interesting project and it might work well as an ibus input-method
and people there would be the best ones to advice on how to do that
and its feasibility, etc.  ibus supports writing input methods in
C, python, vala, etc.

Jens