Brainstorm

Multilayot/language support

Posted on 2010-03-01 07:37 UTC by Misha K.. Status: Under consideration

For now for hardware keyboard languages there are only option to set two languages, and the default will be the language you set at preference. But some people still want to use english as default, as well some people would like to have more than 2 languages on hardware keyboard. And one of the biggest problems is the differents between official USA and other countries hardware keyboards (as lack of the keys in some countries arrows and some english layout keys are different from USA keyboard)

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Solution #1: Separete layout options

Posted on 2010-03-01 07:37 UTC by Misha K..

As i have USA n900 with english keys only on keyboard and i like the placement of them, but if i add russian(as i assume it's not only russian) the placement of US language keys are changing too. It shouln't be conected one to each other and should be configurable for each language separetly. The leayout config files should be separete for every language(only files, not GUI), and in config it should be list of languages i use with option to add/remove. While adding i choose which one to add(info is taken from files description, e.g. every config should have Name="language", that gaves us the ability to add several layouts for same language). And it would give me opportunity to add more than 2 languages and choose by "name" i mentioned before the config i would use, and it wouldn't influence the other languages configurations(while i add russian for example i choose only which russian layout to use by "name", and it would not change US layout as well as it does now). Also that gives the ability to add several languages (more than 2, as it's only 2 now). And option to chose which one is default and order of them(the list should be decide the order 1-Default lang, 2nd - second, 3d-third and so on ....)

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