KTouch/S1/Customizing-Ktouch/English-timed
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
| Time | Narration |
| 00:00 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Customizing KTouch. |
| 00:04 | In this tutorial, you will learn how to: |
| 00:08 | Create a lecture Customize Ktouch Create your own keyboard. |
| 00:13 | Here, we are using Ktouch 1.7.1 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10. |
| 00:21 | Let’s open KTouch. |
| 00:25 | Notice that the Level displays 3. |
| 00:28 | That is because we were in level 3 when we closed Ktouch. |
| 00:32 | We shall now learn to create a new lecture. |
| 00:36 | Here we create new set of characters that can be displayed in the Teacher’s Line. |
| 00:42 | From the main menu, select File and click Edit Lecture. |
| 00:48 | The Open Lecture File dialog box appears. |
| 00:52 | Now, select the Create New Lecture option and click OK. |
| 00:57 | The KTouch Lecture Editor dialog box appears. |
| 01:01 | In the Title field, select and delete the name "A default lecture" and type "My New Training Lecture". |
| 01:12 | The Level Editor displays the Lecture Level. |
| 01:15 | Click inside the Level Editor box. |
| 01:18 | Now, under Data of Level 1, in the New Characters in this Level field, enter the symbols ampersand, star and dollar. |
| 01:29 | We enter them only once. |
| 01:32 | Notice that these characters are displayed in the first line of the Level Editor box. |
| 01:38 | In the Level Data field, first select and delete the text displayed. |
| 01:44 | Enter the symbols ampersand, star and dollar 5 times. |
| 01:49 | Now under the Level Editor box, click on the Plus sign. What happened? |
| 01:57 | A second line comprising alphabets appears in the 'Level Editor' box. |
| 02:02 | Let’s select the second line in the 'Level Editor' box. |
| 02:06 | The Data of Level field now displays 2. |
| 02:09 | This will be the second level in our typing lesson. |
| 02:13 | In the New Characters in this Level field, enter "fj". |
| 02:20 | In the Level Data field, enter "fj" five times. |
| 02:24 | You can create as many levels as you need in your typing lesson. |
| 02:29 | Similarly, you can create as many levels as you want in your typing lesson. |
| 02:35 | Click the Save icon. |
| 02:37 | The Save Training Lecture – KTouch dialog box appears. |
| 02:41 | In the Name field, enter "New Training Lecture". |
| 02:45 | Now, let us select a format for the file. |
| 02:49 | In the Filter drop down list, click the triangle. |
| 02:52 | Select KTouch Lecture Files star.(dot) ktouch.xml within brackets as the format for the file. |
| 03:03 | Browse to the Desktop to save the file there. Click Save. |
| 03:08 | The KTouch Lecture Editor dialog box now displays the name "New Training Lecture". |
| 03:15 | We have created a new training lecture with two levels! |
| 03:19 | Let us close the KTouch Lecture Editor dialog box. |
| 03:24 | Now, let us open the lecture we created. |
| 03:28 | From the main menu, select File and then click Open Lecture. |
| 03:34 | The Select Training Lecture File dialog box appears. |
| 03:38 | Browse to the Desktop and select New Training Lecture.ktouch.xml. |
| 03:46 | Notice that the symbols &, * and $ are displayed in the 'Teacher’s line'. Let’s start typing. |
| 03:54 | We have created our own lecture and used it as a typing lesson! |
| 03:59 | To go back to the KTouch typing lessons, from the Main menu select File, click Open Lecture. Browse the flowing folder path: |
| 04:10 | Root -> usr -> share -> kde4 -> apps -> Ktouch and select english.ktouch.xml. |
| 04:26 | We can customize Ktouch to suit our preferences. |
| 04:30 | For example, when you type a character that is not displayed in the 'Teacher’s Line', the 'Student line' turns red. |
| 04:37 | You can customize colours for different displays. |
| 04:41 | Let us now change the colour settings. |
| 04:44 | From the main menu, select Settings and click Configure – KTouch. |
| 04:50 | The Configure – KTouch dialog box appears. |
| 04:53 | In the 'Configure – KTouch' dialog box, click Color Settings. |
| 04:58 | The 'Color Settings' details appear. |
| 05:02 | Check the Use custom colour for typing line box. |
| 05:05 | In the Teacher’s line field, click on the color box next to the Text field. |
| 05:12 | The Select-Color dialog box is displayed. |
| 05:15 | In the Select-Color dialog box, click green. Click OK. |
| 05:21 | The Configure – KTouch dialog box appears. Click Apply. Click OK. |
| 05:29 | The characters in the 'Teacher’s Line' have changed to green! |
| 05:33 | We shall now create our own keyboard. |
| 05:37 | To create a new keyboard, we have to use an existing keyboard. |
| 05:42 | Make changes to it, and save it in a different name. |
| 05:46 | From the main menu, select File and click Edit Keyboard Layout. |
| 05:52 | The Open Keyboard File dialog box appears. |
| 05:56 | In the Open Keyboard File dialog box, select Open a default keyboard. |
| 06:02 | Now, click on button next to this field. |
| 06:06 | The list of keyboards is displayed. Select en.keyboard.xml. Click OK. |
| 06:15 | The KTouch Keyboard Editor dialog box appears. |
| 06:19 | In the Keyboard Title field, enter "Training Keyboard". |
| 06:25 | We need to select a language for the keyboard. |
| 06:29 | Select "en" from the Language id drop-down list. |
| 06:35 | Let us change the font in the existing keyboard. |
| 06:39 | Click Set Keyboard Font. |
| 06:42 | The Select Font – KTouch dialog box window appears. |
| 06:48 | In the Select Font - KTouch dialog box, let us select "Ubuntu" as the Font, "Italic" as the Font style, and 11 as the Size. |
| 06:58 | Now click OK. |
| 07:00 | To save the keyboard, click Save Keyboard As. |
| 07:04 | The Save Keyboard – KTouch dialog box appears. |
| 07:08 | Browse the flowing folder path: |
| 07:10 | Root -> usr -> share -> kde4 -> apps -> Ktouch and select english.ktouch.xml. |
| 07:26 | In the Name field, enter practice.keyboard.xml. Click Save. |
| 07:33 | The file is saved in the format ‘<name>.keyboard.xml’. Click Close. |
| 07:42 | Can you use the newly made keyboard immediately? No. |
| 07:46 | You will have to mail it to the 'kde-edu' mailing id. It will then be included in the next version of KTouch. |
| 07:57 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial on KTouch. |
| 08:01 | In this tutorial, we learnt to create a lecture for training and modify colour settings. |
| 08:08 | We also learnt to open an existing keyboard layout, modify it and create our own keyboard. |
| 08:15 | Here is an assignment for you. |
| 08:18 | Create your own key board. |
| 08:20 | Make changes to colours and font level changes to keyboard. Check the results. |
| 08:28 | Watch the video available at the following link: http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial |
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| 08:54 | Spoken Tutorial project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project. |
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| 09:17 | This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
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