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Bug 166876

Summary: app-accessibility/onboard (new ebuild)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Dustin Spicuzza <randomperson83>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: aka.bugle, denilsonsa, gnome-accessibility+disabled, v.dijk.bas
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://launchpad.net/onboard
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 248256, 291277    
Bug Blocks:    
Attachments: Ebuild for onboard-0.85
Ebuld for virtkey, a python library which is a dependency of onboard.
Revised ebuild for onboard
virtkey 0.42 ebuild
Less faily ebuild for new version of failcode
onboard-0.91.2.ebuild
Fixed Denilson's ebuild
python-virtkey-0.50.ebuild
onboard-0.92.0.ebuild
python-distutils-extra-2.10.ebuild needed for onboard-0.92.0
Onboard ebuild

Description Dustin Spicuzza 2007-02-14 18:34:00 UTC
Simple On-screen Keyboard with macros and easy layout creation. Additionally, it allows you to dynamically resize it. 

It depends on a python library called 'virtkey', which was created by the author of this utility. I will attach an ebuild for that as well. 

This package was developed for Ubuntu as a summer of code project, and currently is their default on screen keyboard. I have adapted their package to a gentoo ebuild. I'm not sure what Gentoo policy is on using packages developed by other distros, but its GPL so I don't think it will be an issue.

I'm installing a Gentoo Linux system in my car, utilizing a touchscreen, and this on screen keyboard is way better than the others I've tried. 

A portage overlay for both of these ebuilds is located at http://homepages.wmich.edu/~d3spicuz/project/onboard-0.85.tar.bz2
Comment 1 Dustin Spicuzza 2007-02-14 18:35:16 UTC
Created attachment 110186 [details]
Ebuild for onboard-0.85
Comment 2 Dustin Spicuzza 2007-02-14 18:36:08 UTC
Created attachment 110188 [details]
Ebuld for virtkey, a python library which is a dependency of onboard.
Comment 3 Dustin Spicuzza 2007-02-15 04:03:05 UTC
Created attachment 110230 [details]
Revised ebuild for onboard
Comment 4 david l. 2008-01-26 20:33:47 UTC
Onboard  and virt key have been updated to  0.88 and 0.42 could these ebulds be updated?
Comment 5 david l. 2008-01-27 18:22:41 UTC
Created attachment 141905 [details]
virtkey 0.42 ebuild

ebuild for updated virtkey
Comment 6 Thomas Zwaagstra 2008-06-16 05:36:57 UTC
if the ebuild was graciously written and it works... most of the work is done.  Why isn't this in the portage tree 5 months later?  Maybe someone from sunrise would be interested in picking this up...
Comment 7 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2008-11-22 23:12:54 UTC
Created separate bug (#248256) for python-virtkey, as it's used also by gestikk. Could you add it to depends?
Comment 8 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2008-12-06 11:44:12 UTC
Created attachment 174398 [details]
Less faily ebuild for new version of failcode

I've rewritten the ebuild from scratch. But it still needs some fixes, combined with failcode path fixes.
Comment 9 Dustin Spicuzza 2008-12-06 16:45:57 UTC
I switched my carputer to Ubuntu Mobile earlier this year, so I haven't had a need for this ebuild for awhile now. 

I might suggest however that you update it to the version in intrepid, given the link is currently pointing to the feisty branch of ubuntu's repository. It appears onboard has been upgraded to 0.91, and virtkey has been updated to 0.50
Comment 10 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-04-02 03:50:02 UTC
(this is an automated message based on filtering criteria that matched this bug)
'EBUILD' is in the KEYWORDS which should mean that there is a ebuild attached 
to this bug.
This bug is assigned to maintainer-wanted which means that it is not in the 
main tree.
Heuristics show that no Gentoo developer has commented on your ebuild.

Hello, The Gentoo Team would like to firstly thank you for your ebuild 
submission. We also apologize for not being able to accommodate you in a timely
manner. There are simply too many new packages.

Allow me to use this opportunity to introduce you to Gentoo Sunrise. The 
sunrise overlay[1] is a overlay for Gentoo which we allow trusted users to 
commit to and all users can have ebuilds reviewed by Gentoo devs for entry 
into the overlay. So, the sunrise team is suggesting that you look into this 
and submit your ebuild to the overlay where even *you* can commit to. =)

Because this is a mass message, we are also asking you to be patient with us. 
We anticipate a large number of requests in a short time. 

Thanks,
On behalf of the Gentoo Sunrise Team,
Jeremy.

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/
[2]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/SunriseFaq
Comment 11 Denilson Sá Maia 2009-04-14 08:17:11 UTC
Created attachment 188294 [details]
onboard-0.91.2.ebuild

Damn simple ebuild for 0.91.2 version that I wrote. It was based on previous 0.86 ebuild and it works for me.

Notes about this ebuild:
* 0.91.2 uses distutils, thus the ebuild became trivial to write.
* It installs an egg at:
/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/onboard-0.0.0-py2.5.egg-info
Shouldn't the egg have the correct version number? Or is this an upstream problem?
* It installs a file that doesn't seem to be used anywhere in the code:
/usr/share/onboard/scripts/changekbd.sh
Again, probably just an upstream problem.
* Maybe the *.desktop files require some tweaking to make them show up in the correct menu category.
Comment 12 William Hubbs gentoo-dev 2009-05-17 18:55:57 UTC
I can see that there are several requests for this, I will be working
with our gnome-accessibility team to see if they can pick it up.
Comment 13 William Hubbs gentoo-dev 2009-05-17 21:57:07 UTC
gnome accessibility team,

this seems to be a popular package with some users, and there is an
ebuild attached.  Can one of you look this over and see if we can put it
into portage?

Thanks,

William

Comment 14 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2009-08-04 11:37:35 UTC
Created attachment 200139 [details]
Fixed Denilson's ebuild

I've updated SRC_URI & HOMEPAGE, did some cleanup and simplified the RDEPENDs.
Comment 15 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2009-08-12 21:53:56 UTC
Ebuild is now in Sunrise, you can view it using following URL:

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/reviewed/app-accessibility/onboard
Comment 16 John Stile 2009-10-04 00:26:45 UTC
Created attachment 205974 [details]
python-virtkey-0.50.ebuild

python-virtkey-0.50.ebuild required by onboard ebuild.
Comment 17 John Stile 2009-10-05 02:53:39 UTC
Created attachment 206050 [details]
onboard-0.92.0.ebuild

onboard-0.92.0.ebuild
Comment 18 John Stile 2009-10-05 02:57:19 UTC
Created attachment 206055 [details]
python-distutils-extra-2.10.ebuild needed for onboard-0.92.0

python-distutils-extra-2.10.ebuild
Comment 19 John Stile 2009-10-05 03:00:08 UTC
To build onboard-0.92.0.ebuild, I had to make python-virtkey-0.50.ebuild and  python-distutils-extra-2.10.ebuild.
Comment 20 Bas van Dijk 2010-02-01 14:09:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #19)
> To build onboard-0.92.0.ebuild, I had to make python-virtkey-0.50.ebuild and 
> python-distutils-extra-2.10.ebuild.
> 

When I emerge onboard I get the following error on python-distutils-extra:

 * Building of dev-python/python-distutils-extra-2.12 with Python 2.6...
python2.6 setup.py build -b build-2.6
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 3, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup
ImportError: No module named setuptools

So dev-python/setuptools should be a dependency of python-distutils-extra.
Comment 21 Bas van Dijk 2010-02-01 15:20:39 UTC
When starting onboard I get the following python exception:

$ onboard
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/onboard", line 14, in <module>
    from Onboard.OnboardGtk import OnboardGtk as Onboard
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 45, in <module>
    class OnboardGtk(object):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 53, in OnboardGtk
    _window = KbdWindow()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Onboard/KbdWindow.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.icp = IconPalette()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Onboard/IconPalette.py", line 92, in __init__
    join(config.install_dir, "data/onboard.svg"))
glib.GError: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/onboard/data/onboard.svg'

I probably have to enable the svg use flags for:
dev-python/pycairo and x11-libs/cairo

But shouldn't this be a dependency of onboard?
Comment 22 Bas van Dijk 2010-02-01 15:29:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #21)
> I probably have to enable the svg use flags for:
> dev-python/pycairo and x11-libs/cairo

Unfortunately adding the svg use flag to these packages does _not_ solve the python exception.
Comment 23 Bas van Dijk 2010-02-02 08:24:18 UTC
(In reply to comment #22)
> (In reply to comment #21)
> > I probably have to enable the svg use flags for:
> > dev-python/pycairo and x11-libs/cairo
> 
> Unfortunately adding the svg use flag to these packages does _not_ solve the
> python exception.
> 

After re-emerging glib and gtk+ the error disappears. 
Comment 24 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2010-02-02 19:23:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #20)
> When I emerge onboard I get the following error on python-distutils-extra:
> 
>  * Building of dev-python/python-distutils-extra-2.12 with Python 2.6...
> python2.6 setup.py build -b build-2.6
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 3, in <module>
>     from setuptools import setup
> ImportError: No module named setuptools
> 
> So dev-python/setuptools should be a dependency of python-distutils-extra.

You should open a bug for that.
Comment 25 Bas van Dijk 2010-02-03 08:36:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #24)
> You should open a bug for that.

Ok, done: #303317
Comment 26 Bas van Dijk 2010-02-03 21:22:17 UTC
Note that I tested onboard and its dependency python-virtkey on my x86 system. Onboard works correctly so I think ~x86 can be added to the keywords of both packages.
Comment 27 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2010-02-04 21:36:45 UTC
Ok, -r1 should be now in Sunrise, with RDEPEND update and KEYWORDS change.
Comment 28 Bas van Dijk 2010-02-05 09:48:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #27)
> Ok, -r1 should be now in Sunrise, with RDEPEND update and KEYWORDS change.

Thanks, I see the added svg useflag to cairo in RDEPEND. However I don't see the added ~x86 KEYWORD.
Comment 29 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-06-08 16:45:12 UTC
Hello, everyone.

It seems that at least one ebuild related to this bug exists in the Sunrise overlay at the moment. However, I have to regretfully announce that after a long inactivity period the Sunrise project has been discontinued and the related overlay will be eventually removed. For this reason, I'd like to ask you to reevaluate the ebuilds and consider moving them. If you'd like to maintain a package from Sunrise in Gentoo, please take a look at our Proxy Maintainers [1] project.

Please make sure to take ebuilds from the unreviewed developer Sunrise repository [2] rather than the -reviewed one, since the latter has not been updated for over a year. While at it, please note that:

1. Adding a package to Gentoo requires declaring yourself as an active maintainer for it. All bugs regarding the package will be assigned to you, and you will be expected to maintain it.

2. Some packages may not be suitable for addition anymore. While there's no strong rules that would prevent you from adding a package, it may be a bad idea to add old-unmaintained packages that will shortly result in a large number of bugs reported with no solution. If that is the case, please close the bug as RESOLVED/OBSOLETE to make it easier to find packages worth adding.

3. Some of the bugs were already closed as WONTFIX/OBSOLETE/... while the relevant ebuild was kept in Sunrise. If you disagree with the original decision, you still can add the ebuild via proxy-maint.

4. Pleaes note that many of the Sunrise ebuilds are old and may be buggy. If you decide to move them, please make sure to update/clean them up. The proxy-maint team will also review your ebuilds, therefore making sure they land in Gentoo in good quality.

Once again, thank you for your contribution. We hope that you will still want to contribute to Gentoo, through proxy-maint or otherwise.


[1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers
[2]:https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise.git/
Comment 30 Oruriz 2018-02-18 19:13:26 UTC
Created attachment 520056 [details]
Onboard ebuild

I found this ebuild in wjn-overlay
https://gpo.zugaina.org/Overlays/wjn-overlay/app-accessibility/onboard
Maybe someone can check it and push to main tree.
Best on screen keyboards for X11 and touchscreen device.