Hardware keyboard layout for slavic languages

asked 2019-07-22 14:18:08 +0200

ds1979
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Hello,

my topic is: I want to work with Sailfish OS. The goal is, to have a device, that can replace my laptop in certain circumstances on the road with my backpack, e.g. for answering an e-mail or chatting in a fast fashion with a hardware keyboard. I have a Jolla 1 and have made up a custom serbian virtual keyboard (VKB) with the available explanations on TJC. As the VKB works, I can not choose a hardware keyboard in Serbian for my bluetooth keyboard. For all the former Yugoslav countries, it would be helpful, to have this latin keyboard active.

In the path /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols there are many layouts, e.g. rs for Serbian. This XKB keyboard mapping is the same layout for Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. I guess, that the hardware keyboard layout switch in Settings >>> Text Input >>> Hardware keyboards / Active layout uses these XKB keyboard mappings. BUT: The list of available hardware keyboard layouts is much shorter than there are XKB files, so where can I add the XKB mapping "rs" to the hardware keyboard layout list?

I have put this in two categories, because:

• BUG: One can not use the layouts that ARE available, but not listed.
• FEATURE REQUEST: The feature should be available, because it is already there with 98% - just go the last step or give me a hint, how to do this by myself!

Thank you very much in advance!

For the virtual keyboard, I have used the ideas from this article: https://wian.ws/post/ict/2019/keyboard-sailfish/ It is pretty feasible to copy the QML and config files, rename and edit them, and copy them back to the Jolla.