Just so you know, I've started a new virtual keyboard project to address the second issue. It is inspired by matchbox-keyboard to a certain extent and compatible with its GTK input method (meaning, if you have matchbox-keyboard-im and use it, the keyboard will pop up only when needed, as matchbox-keyboard used to). The main concern of this project is i18n: indeed, where all (I honestly haven't found one that doesn't) on-screen keyboards use their own format, and thus, require someone write a config file for each layout, this one will fetch both keyboard geometry (currently, it will use the "Alpha" section of pc105 keyboards) and layout from X (using XKB). This, plus pango for text rendering, should make it work out of the box for any layout. However, the project is pretty young, suffers from a few bugs, its code should be cleaned up a bit, there should be some way to save additional space, and improve its look, so, any help would be appreciated! Oh, and more importantly, it needs a proper name. Anyway, it is usable already, and the current code can be found at http://hg.sitedethib.com/gikbd/
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