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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
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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
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09.17 This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd

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