GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 660368
Provide a full keyboard option, using xkb
Last modified: 2021-05-25 17:46:16 UTC
Created attachment 197679 [details] [review] work-in-progress on using xkb to get a full keyboard layout In some situations, you want a full keyboard. We made some progress toward that with the ctrl and alt support, but there are still lots of keys missing even from the "fullscale" keyboard. I'm attaching some work-in-progress code for using xkb to get the keyboard layout, and then converting that to XML for libcaribou to parse. If you try to use this in gnome-shell currently, you get lots of keys all labeled "..." because the keyboard font size is too big to fit into the keys when they are that many, so all the labels get ellipsized. Oops. :) Anyway, as I said before "work in progress". However, I don't know if I'm going to get a chance to get back to this any time soon, so other people should feel free to hack on it.
Cool. I had some similar work happening in an early stage, but decided physical keyboards have little in common with on screen keyboards. But it is good to revisit this now, with our (confusing) multi-layout architecture. Thanks!
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