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Re: Hungarian keyboard + English with cursor arrows

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwazix (Post 1400806)

Weird, I tried doing about the same, but in the second row, the keys appeared but the cursor didn't move...

Yep, that's why the InputHandler was patched as well ;)

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Can someone try to make a Estonian keyboard like this for Jolla:
http://www.upload.ee/image/2116526/2...8_00-19-43.png

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by gsalone (Post 1400327)

Kindly share how you moved el.qml from source path to target path and also how to edit the layouts.comf?
noob alert :)

Also there is a problem with this line:

Code:

CharacterKey { caption: "τ"; captionShifted: "Τ"; symView: "5"; symView2: "₹" }

I get little square in notepad++ in place of character between quotes for

Code:

symView2: "₹"

. Will this show as character or little square in Jolla? In notepad++ I used Encoding in UTF-8 Without BOM to create the el.qml. Which encoding should be used?

Apologies, I've just seen this now!

1) I 've scp-ied the el.qml file over from my main system to the phone, i.e.

Code:

scp el.qml nemo@192.168.xx.x:/home/nemo

2) Connected via ssh to the phone, became root and copied the file over to the directory of interest:

Code:

devel-su

cp /home/nemo/el.qml /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts

This means that Developer mode is already active and a password has been set. Otherwise, I think it won't work out.

3) I edited the file layouts.conf (using nano

Code:

nano layouts.conf

) and added the following (before EN):

Code:

[el.qml]

name=Hellenic

languageCode=EL

Of course, use Ctrl + X to save the edit.

4) Finally, I've followed the example in the first post and ran (as nemo, not as root)

Code:

exit

systemctl --user restart maliit-server.service

As for the strange character, I need more time to investigate as I am not an expert on the subject.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwazix (Post 1400646)

It's late so I can't write an advanced guide but here's a quick overview. You have to enter the following commands in terminal. Stuff after # are comments, you don't need to type them (not that it does any harm if you do)

Code:

devel-su

You will be asked for password. Nothing will show up when you type the password but don't worry. The password is the one which you entered when you enabled developer mode

After successfully entering password, press enter and the terminal prompt should change from bash-3.2$ to bash-3.2#

Code:

cd /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/el.qml

curl http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/layoutsappend.conf >> layouts.conf

If you want to be able to switch between greek and english with the touch of a button, do the following instead of the above (all other languages will be disabled)

Code:

cd /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/quick_switch/el.qml

mv en.qml en.qml.bak #back up old english layout

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/quick_switch/en.qml

mv layouts.conf layouts.conf.bak #back up old layout configuration

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/quick_switch/layouts.conf

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/quick_switch/globe.png

For the changes to be applied exit root and restart the keyboard server

Code:

systemctl --user restart maliit-server.service

or just

Code:

killall maliit-server

Enjoy

So sorry, you already posted the steps. Too late...

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by sponka (Post 1400791)

So what I did -- instead of modifying original "layouts.conf" with additional definitions I made new "custom-layouts.conf" file and filled with custom keyboards.

I did the same -- added custom layout file and the new layouts were not deleted after the system update.
I would suggest to keep any modifications in a seperate layout file. And remove these modifications when/if Jolla adds them.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Any documentation about the possible properties and values for key objects?
Would be nice to know which values for example "width" could have.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwazix (Post 1400646)

Code:

devel-su

Code:

cd /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/el.qml

curl http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/layoutsappend.conf >> layouts.conf

If you want to be able to switch between greek and english with the touch of a button, do the following instead of the above (all other languages will be disabled)

Code:

cd /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/quick_switch/el.qml

mv en.qml en.qml.bak #back up old english layout

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/quick_switch/en.qml

mv layouts.conf layouts.conf.bak #back up old layout configuration

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/quick_switch/layouts.conf

curl -O http://play.qwazix.com/jolla_layouts/quick_switch/globe.png

For the changes to be applied exit root and restart the keyboard server

Code:

systemctl --user restart maliit-server.service

or just

Code:

killall maliit-server

Enjoy

Followed instructions to the letter.
Ελληνικά appears at keyboard long press as an option,
also at settings->text input->active keyboard.

However, I cannot select the greek keyboard, it just reverts back to EN.

Whenever you have a minute to spare, help would be much appreciated.

SOLVED: my mistake,not sure what was it though, started from the top, qwazix's solution works like a charm :)

Again, many thanks to Qwazix!

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

something interesting

using GR plugin

maliit no longer appears when using android apps (opera, firefox is what I tried).

does that happen with other layouts as well?

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Looks like that happens after restarting maliit. Restarting aliendalvik afterwards seems to fix it.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silwer (Post 1401263)

Can someone try to make a Estonian keyboard like this for Jolla:
http://www.upload.ee/image/2116526/2...8_00-19-43.png

Here you go :)
Estonian keyboard with 4 arrows.
(however, when you press 'up' in the first row, it exists from editing mode... If I'll have some time, I'll check if there is anything available to prevent this.)

Cheers!