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Draft: testing/navboard: new aport, feedback requested

Carl Chave requested to merge sodface/aports:testing/navboard into master

I thought there might be some interest in this being added to the repo. I've tried out a bunch of onscreen keyboards and I think this one is really nice and has some unique features, however, packaging might be a little problematic:

  • I think there should be a -dev package but the .so file is unversioned
  • There's the extra dtext_xcb.h file pulled in from a different repo by the same author which seems a little weird
  • There are tests that could be run but the author uses his own test utility which I would also need to add
  • The launcher is a wrapper script around the binary in /usr/libexec and the script lets end users recompile changes on the fly by including files in their home directory, neat idea but maybe not for a package

Anyway, I thought I would post this in case anyone wanted to check it out or provide some feedback. The sample boards are built with this APKBUILD and show some of the "launcher" functionality. The sliders are especially cool.

I'll probably just end up closing this.

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