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 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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 08.20 | Make changes to colours and font level changes to keyboard.Check the results.
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| 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
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| 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
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