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+DESCRIPTION = "Florence is a virtual keyboard (also called on-screen-keyboard), which allows the user to input text through a touchscreen."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://florence.sourceforge.net/english.html"
+
+#NOTICE: If florence can't find its gconf settings, you need to start florence with --config for one time and save the configuration once.
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
+
+
+DEPENDS = "gtk+ libxml2 libglade librsvg libxtst gconf cairo gettext-native intltool-native"
+
+
+SRC_URI = "http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/florence/florence/0.5.1/florence-0.5.1.tar.bz2 \
+          "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "56d12e5b47c100d9df172aa5ddc0f609"
+SRC_URI[sha1sum] = "a3f1c29dd436150002ec14ce9a63de1d72bd1f91"
+
+
+inherit autotools
+inherit gconf
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-scrollkeeper --without-docs --without-at-spi --without-panelapplet"