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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 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.
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