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KTouch is a program for learning touch typing on a keyboard quickly and correctly.

It is part of the KDE Education Project.

Description

KTouch is a program for learning touch typing. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through different training levels where additional keys are introduced. Because you no longer need to search for the keys on the keyboard you will be able to type quickly and accurately.

Features

Support for many different training lectures
Support for many languages including language specific text fonts
Comfortable lecture editor
Support for different keyboard layouts, with the ability to use user-defined layouts
During training sessions comprehensive statistical informations are shown to help you analyse your progress

How to Add a Keyboard Layout to KTouch

KTouch comes with a number of pre-installed keyboard files. You can simply select the keyboard from the list in the main menu that matches your own keyboard layout. If you can't find a matching keyboard layout, you can either port an old one or make one from scratch. KTouch includes a dialog to make it easy for you.

If your keyboard layout is not in the KTouch -> Settings -> Keyboard Layouts list, it might have existed in early versions but have not been ported to the KDE SC 4.x version.

Read how to port older keyboard layouts to the new .keyboard.xml version...

Documentation

KTouch Handbook

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+| '''KTouch''' is a program for learning touch typing on a keyboard quickly and correctly.
-:A program for learning touch typing on a keyboard quickly and correctly.
+It is part of the [http://edu.kde.org/ KDE Education Project].
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-=== General Information ===
+==Description==
-KTouch is a program for learning touch typing. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through different training levels where additional keys are introduced. Because you no longer need to search for the keys on the keyboard you will be able to type quickly and accurately.
+'''KTouch''' is a program for learning touch typing. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through different training levels where additional keys are introduced. Because you no longer need to search for the keys on the keyboard you will be able to type quickly and accurately.
+==Features==
+* Support for many different training lectures
+* Support for many languages including language specific text fonts
+* Comfortable lecture editor
+* Support for different keyboard layouts, with the ability to use user-defined layouts
+* During training sessions comprehensive statistical informations are shown to help you analyse your progress
+== How to Add a Keyboard Layout to '''KTouch''' ==
-=== How to Add a Keyboard Layout to KTouch ===
+'''KTouch''' comes with a number of pre-installed keyboard files. You can simply
-KTouch comes with a number of pre-installed keyboard files. You can simply
+select the keyboard from the list in the main menu that matches your own keyboard layout. If you can't find a matching keyboard layout, you can either port an old one or make one from scratch. '''KTouch''' includes a dialog to make it easy for you.
-select the keyboard from the list in the main menu that matches your own keyboard
-layout. If you can't find a matching keyboard layout, you can either port an old
-one or make one from scratch.
-KTouch includes a dialog to make it easy for you.
-If your keyboard layout is not in the KTouch -> Settings -> Keyboard Layouts
+If your keyboard layout is not in the <menuchoice>KTouch -> Settings -> Keyboard Layouts</menuchoice> list, it might have existed in early versions but have not been ported to the KDE SC 4.x version.
-list, it might have existed in early versions but have not been ported to the KDE SC 4.x version. Have a look there
-http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/ktouch/keyboards/old_and_contributed/
-to see if your keyboard is in this list, with the extension .keyboard. If so, you'll need to port it to the .keyboard.xml version.  Read on, and I'll explain how to do that.
-Download the .keyboard file from the link above.
+[[KTouch/Port_Keyboard_Layout | Read how to port older keyboard layouts to the new .keyboard.xml version...]]
-Open KTouch and go to the File -> Edit Keyboard Layout... menu. You'll get a
-dialog.
-Choose here "Open a Keyboard File" and browse to find the .keyboard file you downloaded; click Ok.
-The old keyboard file is loaded in the keyboard editor and all you need now to
-do is check if the layout is correct.You might need to add some characters on some keys.
-The KTouch Keyboard Editor first lists the Keyboard Identification Data which
+==Documentation==
-is the name of the keyboard file. The title is the name that will show in the menu and will be translated.
-The keyboard itself is drawn at the bottom and you need to click on the keys you
-want to modify to enable the Key Property section. Each key has four parts: top left, bottom left, top right and bottom right. Add the letter or characters that would fit there.
-On the top right section of the dialog you can save your keyboard and it'll get
+* [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdeedu/ktouch/index.html '''KTouch''' Handbook]
-the .keyboard.xml extension.
-You can then send it to the kde-edu mailing so it'll get included in the next KTouch release!
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