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Re: Keyboard documentation

 

Hi Bogdan,

 Sorry for this taking so long, we've now got this scheduled as part of
our current two week work cycle, however it is dependant on us
completing a couple of higher priority tasks first (but it's looking
hopeful that these should be done in time).

Cheers,
 Mike.


On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 20:52 +0700, Bogdan Cuza wrote:
> 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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