OpenBangla Keyboard (OBK)

(বাংলায় পড়ুন)

OpenBangla Keyboard is an open source, Unicode compliant, Bangla input method for GNU/Linux systems. It’s a full-fledged Bangla input method with typing automation tools, includes many famous typing methods such as Avro Phonetic, Probhat, Munir Optima, National (Jatiya) etc.

Most features of Avro Keyboard are present in OpenBangla Keyboard. So Avro Keyboard users will feel right at home in Linux with OpenBangla Keyboard.

OpenBangla Keyboard is the default Bangla writing software for MagpieOS, a Bangladeshi Linux distribution.

   

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We’re working towards version 2.0 of OpenBangla Keyboard!

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Community
• Compiling on GNU/Linux
• Acknowledgements
• License

Features

• Features a Top Bar like Avro Keyboard for easy configuration.

• Layout Viewer

• Phonetic Keyboard Layout (Avro Phonetic)

  • 100% compatibility with current Avro Phonetic scheme.

  • Dictionary support can predict and suggest phonetically similar words with correct spelling on the fly.

  • Autocorrect feature for numerous commonly mistyped words.

  • Autocorrect support brings commonly used English words to Bangla (like, Facebook, download etc.) even with their original English spelling.

  • User can add and edit autocorrect entries.

  • Support for preview window to see originally typed text right under the cursor.

• Fixed Keyboard Layout

  • OpenBangla Keyboard comes with Probhat, Munir Optima, Avro Easy, Bornona, National (Jatiya) keyboard layouts out of the box.

  • OpenBangla Keyboard supports Avro Keyboard Layout files (version 5).

• Typing Automation tools for Fixed Keyboard layout

  • Automatic vowel forming.

  • Old style "Reph".

  • Traditional "-Kar" joining.

  • Automatic "Chandrabindu" position fixing.

Installation

⚠️	If you had installed OpenBangla Keyboard 1.2.0 or earlier version, please uninstall it first.

Make sure you have a working internet connection.

Open your terminal and run this command on your shell:

bash -c "$(wget -nv -O- https://git.io/JUGB8)"

Then use iBus UI or run ibus-setup to add and activate OpenBangla Keyboard as input method.

After you have installed OpenBangla Keyboard, you may need to configure your desktop environment.

If this does not work out for you, please create an Issue. While we look into the problem, you can check the Wiki for distro-specific install instructions.

Community

We are on Discord and Facebook.

Compiling on GNU/Linux

OpenBangla Keyboard currently has the following build dependencies:

• GNU GCC, G++ compiler or Clang

• Rust 1.34.0 or later

• GNU Make or Ninja

• CMake

• Qt 5.5 or later

• iBus development library

• Zstandard compression library (zstd)

On a Ubuntu/Debian system you can easily install them like this:

sudo apt-get install build-essential rustc cargo cmake libibus-1.0-dev qt5-default libzstd-dev

On a Fedora system you can easily install them like this:

sudo dnf install @buildsys-build rust cargo cmake qt5-qtdeclarative-devel ibus-devel libzstd-devel

On a Arch Linux / Arch Based system you can easily install them like this:

sudo pacman -S base-devel rust cmake qt5-base libibus zstd

After you have installed required libraries and binaries, clone this repository and change to the cloned folder:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/OpenBangla/OpenBangla-Keyboard.git
cd OpenBangla-Keyboard

Then issue the build commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Acknowledgements

• Mehdi Hasan Khan, for originally developing and maintaining Avro Keyboard.

• Rifat Nabi, for porting Avro Phonetic to Javascript.

• Sarim Khan, for writing ibus-avro.

• Saiful Islam, for the icon.

• Material Design Icons.

• QSimpleUpdater, for providing update mechanism.

License

This project is licensed under GPL 3 Licence.

Made with ❤️ by Muhammad Mominul Huque and ✨ contributors ✨!