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keyboard layouts contribution tool

asked 2017-11-20 14:40:19 +0200

mdidaryan gravatar image

I noticed there are too few keyboard layouts in Sailfish OS, and people are making their own custom layouts. It would be nice if there were many layouts out of the box. In my opinion this minor things make us believe that Sailfish OS is a "not fully developed" OS. I understand and accept that this kind of minor things are low priority features and Jolla's developers focus are on other features. However I don't understand why this kind of thing can't be done by contributors. I think it is possible to give contributors a tool to make layouts by following some standard (license, fonts...) provided by Jolla and integrate them in OS. This question already discussed here in Dec 9 '15. What do you think, is it possible to provide such a tool? If yes, what makes it take so much time?

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So you knowingly post a duplicate question, yet the post you point out already has 50+ votes and so you open another one?, this is not the way to do it - you could have followed up on the page you have linked.

Spam Hunter ( 2017-11-20 17:33:34 +0200 )edit

What do you think, is it possible to provide such a tool? If yes, what makes it take so much time? this is my question and it's not a duplicate in my opinion.

mdidaryan ( 2017-11-20 17:48:29 +0200 )edit

In my opinion people in jolla can help contributers to make the OS more mature, but they are not that much interested in that part (it's my personal opinion).

mdidaryan ( 2017-11-20 18:00:00 +0200 )edit

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answered 2017-11-20 15:23:46 +0200

lakutalo gravatar image

updated 2017-11-20 16:14:04 +0200

Yes please, and make it possible to add keys like cursor, backspace and del.

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I'm agree with you, personally I would like "Hacker's keyboard" like thing. But my main question isn't about it. I would like to know is technically possible to provide such a tool? And if yes, why there isn't yet?

mdidaryan ( 2017-11-20 18:08:12 +0200 )edit

In software development nothing is impossible. But not everything that is possible is actually being developed.

lakutalo ( 2017-11-20 23:50:08 +0200 )edit

And my question is, why it isn't actually being developed? I think it's an easy thing to do, community wants that kind of feature for years

mdidaryan ( 2017-11-21 08:49:29 +0200 )edit

I'd love to provide an answer for that.

lakutalo ( 2017-11-21 09:07:51 +0200 )edit
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