KTouch/S1/Customizing-Ktouch/English-timed

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 dialogue box appears.
00:52	Now, select the Create New Lecture option and click OK.
00:57	The KTouch Lecture Editor dialogue 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 dialogue 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.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 dialogue 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 dialogue 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 dialogue 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 dialogue box appears.
04:53	In the Configure – KTouch dialogue box, click Color Settings.
04:58	The Color Settings details appears.
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 dialogue box is displayed.
05:15	In the Select-Color dialogue box, click green.Click OK.
05:21	The Configure – KTouch dialogue 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 dialogue box appears
05:56	In the Open Keyboard File dialogue 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 dialogue 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 dropdown list.
06:35	Let us change the fonts in the existing keyboard.
06:39	Click Set Keyboard Font.
06:42	The Select Font – KTouch dialogue box window appears.
06:48	In the Select Font - KTouch dialogue 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 dialogue 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 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
08:31	It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project
08:34	If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it
08:38	The Spoken Tutorial Project Team
08:41	Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials.
08:44	Gives certificates for those who pass an online test
08:48	For more details, please write to contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org
08:54	Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project
08:59	It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India
09:07	More information on this Mission is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro
09:17	This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd Thanks for joining

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