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Re: Keyboard layout

 

On 01/17/2014 09:42 AM, Tomas Öqvist wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> updated to the latest build (132) today and was excited to see
> settings added for the keyboard layout. Mine was defaulted to Danish
> (for some strange reason), so I changed it to Swedish. However, the
> keyboard still looks the same as before the update, i.e. Swedish
> characters (å,ä and ö) still have to be accessed through a long press
> on "a" or "o".
>
> Am I missing something?
All the pieces haven't actually landed yet, so it's not working
correctly currently. I'll update you when it lands or enough pieces are
in place to manually try it.

>
> Cheers,
> Tomas
>
> Bill Filler skrev 2014-01-16 19:55:
>> On 01/12/2014 02:24 PM, Tomas wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> any news about when Swedish keyboard will be merged?
>>
>> The code to split out keyboard language specific plugins (which
>> includes layouts, spell checking and predictive text) into seperate
>> packages has been merged in trunk, and we're working in parallel on a
>> few branches to enable specific keyboard lang layouts via the
>> Settings UI and dyamically switching the enabled layouts in the
>> keyboard itself (
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~thomas-moenicke/ubuntu-keyboard/ubuntu-keyboard-active-language/+merge/199292
>> <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Ethomas-moenicke/ubuntu-keyboard/ubuntu-keyboard-active-language/+merge/199292>).
>>
>> So it's getting close, hopefully should all land in the next few weeks.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Bill
>>
>>>
>>> BR,
>>> Tomas
>>>
>>> 2013-11-05 15:47, Thomas Moenicke skrev:
>>>> Hi Tomas,
>>>>
>>>> I wrote the Swedish layout yesterday, it should get merged soon. If
>>>> LANGUAGE contains the swedish locale sv, it should be shown in the
>>>> keyboard.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Tomas Ö <tomoqv@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:tomoqv@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Correction to the GMail and Twitter comment below. After a
>>>>     reboot keyboard works (but without auto-caps) in GMail, but
>>>>     still not when composing a tweet. Using the search function in
>>>>     Twitter brings up the keyboard.
>>>>
>>>>     /Tomas
>>>>
>>>>     Tomas Ö skrev 2013-11-05 15:16:
>>>>>     Hi Bill,
>>>>>
>>>>>     I am on 14.04 (r10) and yes, I noticed that auto-caps is
>>>>>     working in the Notes and Messaging apps. However, when I try
>>>>>     composing a new message in GMail or a new tweet in the Twitter
>>>>>     app, the keyboard doesn't even show up.
>>>>>
>>>>>     With reference to the reply from Thomas, I was wondering about
>>>>>     the command:
>>>>>     adb shell sudo -iu phablet gsettings set
>>>>>     com.canonical.keyboard.maliit enabled-languages "['en', 'es',
>>>>>     'fr', 'pt', 'de', 'zh']"
>>>>>     The layout is picked from the LANGUAGE env variable. A recent
>>>>>     keyboard is needed.
>>>>>
>>>>>     In a previous build r100 I think, I tried changing the
>>>>>     keyboard layout according to my question here:
>>>>>     http://askubuntu.com/questions/362910/swedish-keyboard-on-ubuntu-touch
>>>>>
>>>>>     Does the keyboard depend on the display language from the
>>>>>     Ubuntu Touch settings? I was thinking I could use a Swedish
>>>>>     keyboard together with the English UI language, as Swedish is
>>>>>     not yet enabled in Ubuntu Touch (probably because it isn't
>>>>>     ready enough). In that case, how do I enable Swedish for the UI?
>>>>>
>>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>>     Tomas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     Bill Filler skrev 2013-11-05 14:51:
>>>>>>     On 11/05/2013 06:23 AM, Tomas Ö wrote:
>>>>>>>     Hi Thomas,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     thanks for the input. I will try this for the keyboard
>>>>>>>     layout. As I stated below, I have tried the auto-caps
>>>>>>>     command without any result. I guess that is what you meant
>>>>>>>     with the "predicitive-text true" command...? I will try that
>>>>>>>     again also.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     auto-caps is the default behavior now and is working in the
>>>>>>     latest image. The first letter of the word or after
>>>>>>     punctiation should be automatically capitilized in non
>>>>>>     special text fields. you should not need to turn
>>>>>>     predictive-text on to get the auto-caps functionality as they
>>>>>>     are properly decoupled. Are you using latest trusty image?
>>>>>>     phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel trusty-proposed
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     I assume that these commands could also be issued from the
>>>>>>>     terminal app on the device, or?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Thank you,
>>>>>>>     Tomas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Thomas Moenicke skrev 2013-11-05 12:18:
>>>>>>>>     Hi Tomas,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     you need to add the desired language to the list of enabled
>>>>>>>>     languages:
>>>>>>>>     adb shell sudo -iu phablet gsettings set
>>>>>>>>     com.canonical.keyboard.maliit enabled-languages "['en',
>>>>>>>>     'es', 'fr', 'pt', 'de', 'zh']"
>>>>>>>>     The layout is picked from the LANGUAGE env variable. A
>>>>>>>>     recent keyboard is needed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     For getting autocaps working also try this:
>>>>>>>>     adb shell sudo -iu phablet gsettings set
>>>>>>>>     com.canonical.keyboard.maliit predictive-text true
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Thomas
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Tomas Ö <tomoqv@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>>>     <mailto:tomoqv@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Is it possible to change the keyboard layout with the
>>>>>>>>         gsettings command? I also tried to change
>>>>>>>>         auto-capitalization with the following command in the
>>>>>>>>         terminal on my device:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         sudo -iu phablet gsettings set
>>>>>>>>         com.canonical.keyboard.maliit auto-capitalization true
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         but it didn't work.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thanks,
>>>>>>>>         Tomas
>>>>>>>>
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