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Re: Keyboard documentation

 

Hi!I think the Romanian layout should look awesome/finished now (with rev 340 in my branch). Would it be possible to get some reviews, nobody said anything for a month and a half :(Thanks,Bogdan

From: bogdan.cuza@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 02:36:07 +0700
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard documentation




Yes, I know how to test the keyboard, making my partition writable is what I'm trying to avoid, I might give it a try when I have some time though.

Thanks,Bogdan
> From: simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:41:56 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard documentation
> To: bogdan.cuza@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Bogdan Cuza <bogdan.cuza@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Well the feature freeze is a bit disappointing, this means that they won't
> > get through until vivid is released, right? BTW, I think you mentioned in an
> > email in this thread that if we aren't able to do the testing, you could do
> > it, because I have no idea how to test it, I just followed a template.
> 
> You can test the layout on the emulator or on the phone.
> 
> What you need to do is copy the appropriate files onto the device in
> the correct directories.
> The minimum steps (read: quick and dirty) to do are:
> 
> 1. Change the root partition from read-only to read-write.
> sudo mount -o remount,rw /
> 
> 2. Edit the file /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/ubuntu/KeyboardContainer.qml
> so that you add your language code. See, for example,
> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/10458032/
> 
> 3. Add your layout files into
> /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/ubuntu/lib/
> in a subdirectory called by your language code.
> For Greek, that would be
> /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/ubuntu/lib/el/
> 
> See the filenames at
> https://github.com/simos/ubuntu-touch-greek-keyboard-layout/tree/master/el
> For my quick & dirty testing, I only edited the "Keyboard_el.qml"
> file. All the rest are bogus and taken from other layouts.
> 
> 4. Change back the root partition from read-write to read-only.
> sudo mount -o remount,ro /
> 
> 5. Then, check the list of they keyboard layouts and add your newly
> created layout.
> Note that we did not add the name "Greek" in the appropriate file, so
> it appears as "el" in the list.
> 
> Simos
 		 	   		  

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