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Re: Keyboard documentation

 

For Greek we created
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-keyboard/+bug/1440722

Is there anything else that is needed from our side?

Simos

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Bogdan Cuza <bogdan.cuza@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> No worries :) I think I might actually use something from your layout,
> like the .po file, maybe change the book (because I couldn't find anything
> *big*, so I went with a foreign book) and I also didn't edit the wordengine
> file. Two of those are probably because I based my changes on another MR.
> Anyway, thanks :)
>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:12:37 +0300
> > From: cos64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard documentation
> >
> > On 15.04.2015 16:52, 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
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > So your Romanian layout was already done when I made mine [1] ?
> > Too bad I didn't know about it.
> > Anyway, looking forward to having it integrated! ;-)
> >
> > Cos
> >
> > [1]:
> >
> https://code.launchpad.net/~cos64/ubuntu-keyboard/add-romanian-layout/+merge/254607
> >
> > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 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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