Finally, Mugunth and volunteers of thamizha.com came out with a successful Open source keyboard manager software e-Kalappai 3.0 (5.19MB). Currently e-Kalappai 3.0 supports Tamil language unicode text input with five keyboard layouts such as Tamil99, Phonetic, Typewriter, Bamini, Inscript in windows operating systems. It was written in C++ using Nokia's Qt Framework. e-Kalappai can be extended to any language as it is open source. Now e-Kalappai claims to be the first open source keyboard manager for Tamil language.
e-Kalappai is a popular freeware used by lot of Tamils around the globe for typing Tamil in computers. With the release of Ver 3.0, e-Kalappai became free software (GNU GPL License) too. This is a good news for the Tamil community. Kudos to Mugunth & Thamizha volunteers for taking this excellent initiative. I hope that the future versions of e-Kalappai will enable the input of other languages also.
Previous versions (1.0 and 2.0) of e-Kalappai were freeware (not free software) built using a third party proprietary Software called Tavulte Keyman(http://www.tavultesoft.com/ ). While trying to enhance e-Kalappai to the next level, Thamizha Team could not upgrade ekalappai 2.0b to new version since Tavultesoft didn't agreed for an OEM license for their latest Keyman software to create free eKalappai 3.0. So, Mugunth decided to rewrite the entire e-Kalappai from the scratch and release it under GNU GPL License as open source software.
He started working seriously on e-Kalappai 3.0 for windows platform from January 2010. In the mean time, some of his friends and ex-colleague Vijay Gupta joined hands with him for the development and testing of e-Kalappai 3.0 . Read mugunth's Blog post to know about his development experience.
Previously, beta versions of e-Kalappai 3.0 were released to the public for testing. After fixing all the reported bugs e-Kalappai 3.0 final was released by November 2010. Mugunth revamped his thamizha.com website and hosted e-Kalappai 3.0 binary installer files in that. Now you can download the latest version of e-Kalappai from thamizha website http://thamizha.com/project/ekalappai.
A post (written in Tamil with some screenshots) about e-Kalappai 3.0 and its features could be found at EzilNila website http://ezilnila.com/archives/1672
If you would like to take part in the development / testing of future versions of e-Kalappai, go through this link http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/ . Source code of e-Kalappai 3.0 can also be downloaded from the above mentioned site.
e-Kalappai is a popular freeware used by lot of Tamils around the globe for typing Tamil in computers. With the release of Ver 3.0, e-Kalappai became free software (GNU GPL License) too. This is a good news for the Tamil community. Kudos to Mugunth & Thamizha volunteers for taking this excellent initiative. I hope that the future versions of e-Kalappai will enable the input of other languages also.
Previous versions (1.0 and 2.0) of e-Kalappai were freeware (not free software) built using a third party proprietary Software called Tavulte Keyman(http://www.tavultesoft.
He started working seriously on e-Kalappai 3.0 for windows platform from January 2010. In the mean time, some of his friends and ex-colleague Vijay Gupta joined hands with him for the development and testing of e-Kalappai 3.0 . Read mugunth's Blog post to know about his development experience.
Previously, beta versions of e-Kalappai 3.0 were released to the public for testing. After fixing all the reported bugs e-Kalappai 3.0 final was released by November 2010. Mugunth revamped his thamizha.com website and hosted e-Kalappai 3.0 binary installer files in that. Now you can download the latest version of e-Kalappai from thamizha website http://thamizha.com/project/ekalappai.
A post (written in Tamil with some screenshots) about e-Kalappai 3.0 and its features could be found at EzilNila website http://ezilnila.com/archives/1672
If you would like to take part in the development / testing of future versions of e-Kalappai, go through this link http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/ . Source code of e-Kalappai 3.0 can also be downloaded from the above mentioned site.
