Gsoc2021

These are the articles detailing my work on xrdesktop during Google Summer of Code 2021.

• 2021-08-22

  Google Summer of Code 2021, Retrospective

  In this post, we look back on the virtual keyboard project that I worked on for xrdesktop as a participant in Google Summer of Code 2021. It was a great...

• 2021-08-19

  Keyboard Layouts

  We now support 56 languages in xrdesktop!

• 2021-08-13

  KDE in VR with Keyboard Support

  The xrdesktop project comes with built-in support for the two most popular desktop environments: GNOME and KDE. I’ve managed to get my virtual keyboard working for KDE!

• 2021-07-26

  Emoji Mode ✨

  We now have multiple keyboard modes in xrdesktop: lowercase, uppercase, numbers, special characters and emojis!

• 2021-06-27

  Keyboard Event Handling

  First things first, I made sure that the keyboard is always in view by using some nice existing functionality of xrdesktop and grouping all keyboard buttons into one G3kContainer and...

• 2021-06-14

  Introduction to xrdesktop

  Hello again! It has been a week and we still haven’t been formally introduced! I’m Remco Kranenburg, and I’m implementing a virtual keyboard for xrdesktop this summer, for

• 2021-05-30

  Getting Started with GLib

  For GSoC 2021, I will be working on xrdesktop, which is written with the GLib library. Since learning by explaining is even better than learning by doing, I’ll show the...