<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Nathanaël and everyone else interested in keyboard layouts other than English,<br><br>I really didn't like the idea of releasing Opaque into production supporting only English (QWERTY), so I devised a method to get around a current SPICE protocol limitation (only being able to transmit keyboard scan codes and not unicode to the VM). It involves Opaque translating unicode characters on-device according to a user-specified layout into a series of scan codes. Currently English (QWERTY), German (QWERTZ), and French
(AZERTY) are fully supported including all AltGr and dead-key combinations.<br><br></div>I encourage all users of the supported layouts to give them a thorough beating and let me know of any issues. I'd also like to hear your opinions on whether such a solution can and should make it to production.<br>
<div><br>To
use a layout other than English (default), long-tap on a connection to
edit it, then from the new drop-down select your desired layout. Once
connected to your VM, ensure that the chosen layout there matches the
layout you picked in the settings. For best results (i.e. for your
Android keyboard to offer you all the possible unicode choices that your
layout can produce), you should also use an Android keyboard that
supports your language. The layout on your phone is not at all
important, because all I need from the Android IME are unicode values,
however, I must say that I find Hacker's keyboard most flexible.<br><br>One
caviat is that in order to be able to obtain the true unicode value
from the IME, I've had to interpret ALT meta state as belonging to the
KeyEvent rather than something that should be passed on to the VM. The
reason for this is that on Android, some characters like the German "ß"
appears as ALT+s to me, and that's the only way to properly capture it.
In fact, if you type ALT+s manually, while using the German layout, you
will get a "ß" on the remote side.<br><br>Hence, the Hacker's keyboard
ALT cannot be used as an ALT. Thankfully, though, there is a nice
workaround. The on-screen ALT button is exempt from such considerations
and works just fine.<br><br>Once the project gains a larger user-base, I
expect that interested people will be able to help me create their own
keyboard layout map files. The final format will be documented and the
documentation will be available in the source distribution.<br><br></div><div>Everyone, thank you very much in advance for your input!<br><br></div><div>Sincerely,<br>iordan<br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Nathanaël Blanchet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blanchet@abes.fr" target="_blank">blanchet@abes.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Le 06/12/2013 17:31, Nathanaël Blanchet a écrit :<div class="im"><br>
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<font size="-1">Hi, just tested it, it is an unexpected good idea</font>!<br>
My ovirt server is ssl only, so it was a bit complicated to get
/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem. <br>
I think it could be great to add a browser to get the ca into the
filesystem instead of searching it into the phone, virtual
keyboard is not convinient to type long inputs.<br>
Then, opaque's keyboard regional layout gave me headache. It is
default qwerty but I need french layout, and no option to change
it in the app is available. So, I changed the android layout
keyboard into qwerty, but at this time while the keyboard is
physically qwerty, I get a "A" for "Q", so it is always inversed.
Maybe I should change the spice server layout...<br>
So the idea is good but it is unusable with non US layout. <br>
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</div><font size="-1">Something else important : </font>I only managed to
login with admin@local and no external authentication (AD in my
case) was possible since it is supported into the regular webadmin.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>Le 06/12/2013 17:11, i iordanov a
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<div>Hi guys,<br>
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Just a clarification that Opaque is a VM console client, not
an infrastructure management client.<br>
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Cheers!<br>
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iordan<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:38 PM, i
iordanov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iiordanov@gmail.com" target="_blank">iiordanov@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>Hello,<br>
<br>
We invite any interested oVirt/RHEV developers and
administrators to beta-test Opaque, a new Android
oVirt/RHEV client application.<br>
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To opt in, please reply to this message with an email
address associated with a Google Account, because
joining the beta-test group is based on membership to
a Google Plus community. If you don't want that email
address posted to the mailing list, don't include it
in your reply!<br>
<br>
Itamar or I will add you to the community and let you
know that you can proceed to the following two steps:<br>
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1) Please visit this page here to accept the
invitation:<br>
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2) Once you've become a member of the Google+ group,
to opt-in, visit:<br>
<a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.undatech.opaquebeta" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.undatech.opaquebeta</a><br>
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You will be able to download Opaque from Google Play
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Please share your experiences with Opaque to the
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Cheers,<br>
iordan<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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