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Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Updated 19/8/2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bundyo (Post 1391928)

Arabic layout by MSameer here

Here is an updated version of the arabic layout. Based on Bundyo's work.

http://www.sysbase.org/sailfish/ar.qml.txt

Screenshots:

More screenshots http://sysbase.org/sailfish/images/
http://www.sysbase.org/sailfish/images/harakat.jpg

http://www.sysbase.org/sailfish/images/extra.jpg

http://www.sysbase.org/sailfish/images/fasela.jpg

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by bundyo (Post 1391928)

so, it is that time of the year again - jolla's sailfish os seems to be shipping with 12 languages/keyboard layouts only and its up to us to create the additional ones we need.

bulgarian phonetic

obligatory screenshot:
http://bundyo.org/jolla/layouts/jolla_bg_layout.png

rpm file (install with a file manager or with zypper/pkcon-local in terminal):
http://bundyo.org/jolla/layouts/bulg...1-1.noarch.rpm
updated rpm with fixed predictions in sailfish os 1.0.5.16:
http://bundyo.org/jolla/layouts/bulg...2-1.noarch.rpm

if you prefer manual installation:
layout file:
http://bundyo.org/jolla/layouts/bg.qml

bg conf file (no need to modify the layouts.conf, as it gets replaced on updates and all conf files in the layouts folder get parsed by the server):
http://bundyo.org/jolla/layouts/bg.conf

for now both go to (dunno the user location yet):
/usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/

and just restart afterwards. You can also do

Code:

systemctl --user restart maliit-server.service

as a user or just

Code:

killall maliit-server

as root.

greek layout by qwazix here

czech qwertz & qwerty layouts by kaacz here

catalan layout by fri here

french-swiss layout by jordi here

hungarian layout with arrows by cstom here

hungarian qwertz layout by venemo here

latvian layout by ajajaij here

estonian layout by cstom here

french "ergonomic" layout fr-bépo by rbn here

arabic layout by msameer here

colemak layout by notconfusing here

hebrew layout by schturman here

german layout with arrows and other enhancements by anyone here

croatian layout by igor_b here

solution for accents with multiple dead keys by venemo here

rpm packages for many of the layouts in this thread made available in open repos by penguin. More here

i can add more layouts to the thread, until we properly package them and submit them to the jolla harbour, you can post them below.

Някой може ли на чист Български език да ми каже как се инсталира тази фонетична клавиатура?

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Може. Най-лесно става, като си я инсталираш от тук: https://openrepos.net/content/bundyo...netic-keyboard

Теглиш и щракаш върху нея в Transfers.

След това трябва да я пуснеш от Settings -> System -> Text Input -> Keyboards

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Bundyo
Много Благодаря. Работи Перфектно.

Dvorak Layout for Maliit

Hi everyone. The dvorak layout packaged here and on openrepos sucks really bad, so last night I rewrote it myself inspiring on the android keyboard one.

I'm not in the mood to rpm it, because to modify the last keyboard row I've got to edit a layout-indipendent file of maliit conf. I'm going to send these changes to Penguin, hoping he could do the work.

You've got to replace your language file with dvorak.qml and SpacebarRowDeadKey.qml

/usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/yourlanguage.qml
/usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/SpacebarRowDeadKey.qml

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by RbN (Post 1404902)

French "ergonomic" layout fr-bépo : https://pad.lqdn.fr/p/sailfish-bepo

Hi !

where should we paste this ?

thx

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Hi!

Here is a custom keyboard for German Neo layout (Neo 2).
To use it you need to copy custom_neo20.qml and @custom_neo20.conf into

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

After a restart of the phone (or maliit-server) you can enable Neo 2 in the settings.

Edit: Now available at openrepos.net.
Please remove the files "custom_neo20.qml" and "@custom_neo20.conf" before installing the rpm package (because of new file names).

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

My Extended English keyboard has been optimised. All numbers added to the upper row, and a lot added to the comma, the dot and the L.
http://jollanl.org/wp-content/upload...NTZ11C4rBE.jpg http://jollanl.org/wp-content/upload...tePG1YpsiR.jpg
You can download the files: enx.zip
Copy these to /home/nemo/Documents and install them as root:

Code:

cd /home/nemo/Documents

cp enx.qml /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts

cp enx.conf /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts

killall maliit-server

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Customized pinyin and stroke keyboard layouts for simplified Chinese:
https://openrepos.net/content/gexc/p...n-yin-jian-pan
https://openrepos.net/content/gexc/s...hua-jian-pan-b

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Just wondering has anyone done a Lithuanian keyboard layout?

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Malayalam keyboard for Sailfish OS available in OpenRepos.net

https://openrepos.net/content/abyzth...board-sailfish

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by mariusmssj (Post 1442784)

Just wondering has anyone done a Lithuanian keyboard layout?

Here's Lithuanian keyboard layout.
Vat jums ir prašom. ;)

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Uploaded Hindi Keyboard for Sailfish RPM. https://openrepos.net/content/abyzth...board-sailfish
As mentioned in description, it does not display some fonts correctly on the keyboard layout. See screenshot on openrepos.

This issue seems to be there with a few Indian languages. Malayalam works perfectly. If anyone can suggest a more complete GPL version font for Hindi, Telugu, Gujarati, etc, I can try those and see if they are any better.

Update: Link to TJC https://together.jolla.com/question/...ing-displayed/

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by liarwa (Post 1444540)

Here's Lithuanian keyboard layout.
Vat jums ir prašom. ;)

Aciu :) bus lengviau rasyt

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Would be great if someone could make an English QWERTY layout (like the default English one from Jolla) with arrow keys (at least left and right arrow keys) :)

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by vistaus (Post 1446069)

Would be great if someone could make an English QWERTY layout (like the default English one from Jolla) with arrow keys (at least left and right arrow keys) :)

Here's one. It's not the default Jolla one in number/symbol view but shouldn't be too hard to modify to your liking.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Thank you soooo much! I also like the number/symbol view a bit better :) But those arrow keys make all the difference, you rock! :)

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

On his GitHub it says it's on his to-do list :) But moving the files isn't really that hard. Just copy over the qml files to /usr/share/maliit/com/jolla/plugins and the files from layouts folder to the layouts folder in /usr/share/maliit/com/jolla/plugins
You can do that either by using the terminal or File Browser from Jolla Store. Then, restart your phone or the maliit service (as described in the OP of this thread) and activate the keyboard in Text Input in System Settings :)

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by tmi (Post 1446089)

Here's one.

Fantastic, thanks! The addition of the cursor keys makes a HUGE difference. Why on earth are they not there in the default one?

Just one more thing. Would anyone know how to adopt it to accept pressing the cursor keys whilst holding Shift? THAT's the main reason I want cursor keys, for an easy text selection.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1446362)

Just one more thing. Would anyone know how to adopt it to accept pressing the cursor keys whilst holding Shift? THAT's the main reason I want cursor keys, for an easy text selection.

Personally, I would like to see no need for the arrow keys at all if the cursor could be moved in an easier way like e.g. sliding a finger on the keyboard. This video should demonstrate it well enough (don't mind the iPad or even the tablet's screen size). Plus, the video also shows the Shift-selection (no need to hold, though) which combined with the sliding really makes the text selection easy and fast.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

@tmi, swipe select (almost) works in the Mail application, but it is very hard to use properly. And it does not work pretty much anywhere else (for example, in edit boxes on this very website). If the choice is between waiting for Jolla to implement it to work in any application OR fixing the keyboard layout, I would bet my pants on the latter. Besides, swipe select is still a pain for very large (several pages long) or very small (one or two characters) portions of text.

Come to think of it, another key I would really like is Ctrl. There's nothing like Ctrl-A to "select all".

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Created a normal qwertz keyboard layout without any üäö keys.
My experience is that I am typing with a lot of errors on the default german keyboard layout.
With this I could reduce my errors to almost nothing.

Maybe I am to accustomed to the blackberry keyboard layouts (both virtual or hardware) but for anyone also having problems with the default this one might help:

https://openrepos.net/content/llelec...-layout-qwertz

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

llelectronics, I tried it, very nice. I guess it would be even better if the ÜÖÄ would be the default selected keys when long pressing, or at least next to UOA.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Yeah I left the default here as it is also with other keyboards on other plattforms.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by llelectronics (Post 1453438)

Hi, I also switched to your kb Layout but I am missing arrow keys.
So, is there a chance for you to add arrows next to the spacebar?

Thanks,

J4ZZ

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

For some Indian Languages requires non-printing-characters like zwnj, zwj and zwsp.

I can put those unicode characters on keyboard and have maliit send it, but they are all blank keys. I would like to display some characters on the key so the user know which key is which.

Is there a way to have maliit send a different character/string than what is displayed on the key?

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Any way to add arrow keys?

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

@Dave999,
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...89#post1446089
Just two pages back!

@abyzthomas,
Not sure but I would start by looking at Czech or similar keyboards with dead keys

has someone a smaler german keyboard? (50% or 75% of the size) ?

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by llelectronics (Post 1453475)

Yeah I left the default here as it is also with other keyboards on other plattforms.

It seems to be not possible to replace the default key with an own unfortunately, so I went ahead and put all Umlaute one place right of the default character. So at least I don't have to search the correct one each time. Maybe you like that idea and put it in an update.

Code:

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import QtQuick 2.0

import ".."



KeyboardLayout {

    KeyboardRow {

        CharacterKey { caption: "q"; captionShifted: "Q"; symView: "1"; symView2: "â‚¬" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "w"; captionShifted: "W"; symView: "2"; symView2: "Â£" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "e"; captionShifted: "E"; symView: "3"; symView2: "$"; accents: "eÃ¨Ã©Ã«Ãªâ‚¬"; accentsShifted: "EÃˆÃ‰ÃŠÃ‹â‚¬" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "r"; captionShifted: "R"; symView: "4"; symView2: "Â¥" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "t"; captionShifted: "T"; symView: "5"; symView2: "â‚¹"; accents: "t"; accentsShifted: "T" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "z"; captionShifted: "Z"; symView: "6"; symView2: "%" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "u"; captionShifted: "U"; symView: "7"; symView2: "<"; accents: "uÃ¹ÃºÃ¼Ã»"; accentsShifted: "UÃ™ÃšÃœÃ›" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "i"; captionShifted: "I"; symView: "8"; symView2: ">"; accents: "iÃ®Ã¯Ã¬Ã*"; accentsShifted: "IÃŽÃÃŒÃ" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "o"; captionShifted: "O"; symView: "9"; symView2: "["; accents: "oÃ²Ã³Ã´ÃµÃ¸Ã¶"; accentsShifted: "OÃ’Ã“Ã”Ã•Ã˜Ã–" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "p"; captionShifted: "P"; symView: "0"; symView2: "]" }

        //CharacterKey { caption: "Ã¼"; captionShifted: "Ãœ"; symView: "%"; symView2: "â€°" }

    }



    KeyboardRow {

        CharacterKey { caption: "a"; captionShifted: "A"; symView: "*"; symView2: "`"; accents: "aÃ¤Ã*Ã¡Ã£Ã¢Ã¥Ã¦"; accentsShifted: "AÃ„Ã€ÃÃƒÃ‚Ã…Ã†"}

        CharacterKey { caption: "s"; captionShifted: "S"; symView: "#"; symView2: "^"; accents: "sÃŸÅŸ$"; accentsShifted: "SÅž$" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "d"; captionShifted: "D"; symView: "+"; symView2: "|"; accents: "dÃ°"; accentsShifted: "DÃ" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "f"; captionShifted: "F"; symView: "-"; symView2: "_" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "g"; captionShifted: "G"; symView: "="; symView2: "Â§"; accents: "gÄŸ"; accentsShifted: "GÄž" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "h"; captionShifted: "H"; symView: "("; symView2: "{" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "j"; captionShifted: "J"; symView: ")"; symView2: "}" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "k"; captionShifted: "K"; symView: "!"; symView2: "Â°" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "l"; captionShifted: "L"; symView: "?"; symView2: "Â·" }

        //CharacterKey { caption: "Ã¶"; captionShifted: "Ã–"; symView: "Ã·"; symView2: "Â¡" }

        //CharacterKey { caption: "Ã¤"; captionShifted: "Ã„"; symView: "Ã—"; symView2: "Â¿" }

    }



    KeyboardRow {

        ShiftKey {}



        CharacterKey { caption: "y"; captionShifted: "Y"; symView: "@"; symView2: "Â«"; accents: "yÃ½Â¥"; accentsShifted: "YÃÂ¥" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "x"; captionShifted: "X"; symView: "&"; symView2: "Â»" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "c"; captionShifted: "C"; symView: "/"; symView2: "\""; accents: "cÃ§"; accentsShifted: "CÃ‡" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "v"; captionShifted: "V"; symView: "\\"; symView2: "â€œ" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "b"; captionShifted: "B"; symView: "'"; symView2: "â€" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "n"; captionShifted: "N"; symView: ";"; symView2: "â€ž"; accents: "nÃ±"; accentsShifted: "NÃ‘" }

        CharacterKey { caption: "m"; captionShifted: "M"; symView: ":"; symView2: "~" }



        BackspaceKey {}

    }



    SpacebarRow {}

}

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morpog (Post 1458239)

If you can send me a patch file in UTF-8 please (as here it looks like the encoding is broken) I can test it and update the keyboard as you wish.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Updated the qwertz custom layout with your changes. Thanks for contributing.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by tmi (Post 1446089)

Quote:

Originally Posted by vistaus (Post 1446069)

Would be great if someone could make an English QWERTY layout (like the default English one from Jolla) with arrow keys (at least left and right arrow keys) :)

Here's one. It's not the default Jolla one in number/symbol view but shouldn't be too hard to modify to your liking.

For anyone still interested, I updated the keyboard to work in 1.1.4.28 and to support the split keyboard mode.

The 'g' is after the separator on purpose. That way the left side of the second row felt more usable to me. If this annoys someone too much, then just adjust the splitIndex value from "4" to "5" in layouts/en_ios.qml.

Re: Keyboard layouts for Jolla's Sailfish OS

That's great news! Hopefully the arrow bug is solved though... Will try it out asap, although an RPM would be nice to have :)

Edit: the arrow bug seems solved at first sight, will try out some more later on :)