[Sugar-devel] Maliit 0.93.0 OSK language layout cycle key testing

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Gary C Martin
<garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I wasn't having much luck with yum upgrade seeing the arm versions on the
> XOs here for testing yet, but I managed to find your arm build tonight at
> [1], and installed the below rpms on an XO-4 for some quick testing of the
> new language layout cycle key support:
>

Great, I had to go to sleep before it completed. It is now in the dropbox
so you should be able to "yum upgrade" it.


> Wanted to quickly confirm that all is working well :) The language layout
> key icon is rendering correctly on the keyboard (world map icon [3]); that
> the key is cycling through the enabled layouts on each press; and once it
> reaches the last enabled layout it loops back to the first layout.
>
> I can also confirm that the extended key fix [2] is correctly included.
>
> I am considering one small design change on these layouts, to swap
> the language layout key with the ?123 key to the left, so that the language
> key is in the far left keyboard corner. This will keep its position stable
> as you cycle through different keyboard layouts allowing you can tap in the
> same location without needing to visually check it might have shifted a
> little (the ?123 size can vary on some layouts due to additional keys).
>

OK, let me know if there's extra/updated patches.

Peter


> I will re-test the OSK tomorrow on an XO-1.75 for checking portrait
> orientation layouts (XO-4s don't yet have gfx support for screen rotation).
>
> Many (!) thanks must go to Michael (mikhas) for his Sunday maliit coding,
> patch, and release, this was almost a lost feature for the 13.1.0 target!!
>
> Daniel: If possible we should try to enable two, perhaps three layouts in
> the next test build so the feature can be more widely used/demoed/tested –
> keeping in mind there is no existing way to hide this key if only one
> layout is enabled (the key has no effect if only one language layout is
> enabled).
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> [1] http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/builds
> [2] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12205
> [3]
>
>
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