Keyboard layouts possible to provide in Jolla store?
asked 2013-12-25 14:50:03 +0200
Is it possible for devs to make additional keyboard layouts available through the Jolla app store?
On http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91917 you find a vkb rpm package said to be installable on Sailfish OS just using a file manager. This means, the install path for applications does not seem to be a full stop for vkb installation ex store. Possible procedure:
- Install a vkb app from the store.
This would install in /usr/share/app-name/. - Running the vkb app, from within the app select rpm or whats-o-ever packages from the store (or any other Jolla controlled source) containing specific vkb layouts and start their unpacking into the maliit directory by that vkb app.
The layouts available do not need (all) to be provided by Jolla, see my request here: https://together.jolla.com/question/23606/custom-keyboard-layouts-via-jolla-store/. (It should be simple to parse user provided layout files automatically for inacceptable code.) However, I accept: The whole concept needs a couple of days of programming, so in the light of more important issues, this is not something to be implemented in the short term.
jgr ( 2014-02-13 02:47:21 +0200 )edit
I would like to get Romanian layout too, preferably a full layout with the extra chars instead of the hold-key-and-select-char method.
clau ( 2013-12-25 15:26:11 +0200 )editand maybe add missing keys to uk layout (at least ¬ isn't there) or make it possible to create complete keyboards as "app"
kelvan ( 2013-12-25 19:36:18 +0200 )editanother option to add unlisted keys language from keyboard... add "unlisted"... connect jolla store ...let select the new keyboard "swiss french" (FR-ch or CH_fr) as exemple
redge73 ( 2013-12-28 04:12:15 +0200 )edit