Keyboard layouts possible to provide in Jolla store?
Is it possible for devs to make additional keyboard layouts available through the Jolla app store?
Is it possible for devs to make additional keyboard layouts available through the Jolla app store?
To the question: no, not currently: you need to edit layouts.conf as said, and you can only install into /usr/share/app-name/
That said, I have an ongoing discussion to make this area saner. I'll try to follow up.
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:
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 +0300 )editPenguin has made it possible through the warehouse app. Three cheers for Penguin!
Apparently keyboard layouts are easy: Check Kaacz's answer (incl. keyboard definition file) in character ő is missing thread.
(hint: check /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/
create your own layout, and add it to the layouts.conf then reboot systemctl --user restart maliit-server.service
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http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91917 found this. now I have to figure out how to create a .qml file
fotis ( 2013-12-25 22:12:08 +0300 )editDetailed instructions: https://together.jolla.com/question/21510/howto-adapt-sailfish-virtual-keyboard-vkb-layout/
jgr ( 2014-02-03 15:56:33 +0300 )editAsked: 2013-12-25 14:50:03 +0300
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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 +0300 )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 +0300 )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 +0300 )edit