Comments on: Localizing Maemo

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:36:40 +0000

Andy: from what I know switching HW keyboard layouts (without using Control Panel) is not possible with OS2008. But I never checked as I use one layout.

By: andy

andy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:35:05 +0000

thank you for the pack!

I will appreciate if you give me an advise or any help on slidy keyboard layout change. I have russian keyboard and enlish letter are also there on the buttons but to use it I need to push SHIFT then Fn and then the key for english character to appear. Is there a way to type in english constantly in this case?

Thank you againe :) Regards.

By: Arkady Glazov

Arkady Glazov — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:23:31 +0000

To add user keyboard to Text Input Applet it is impossible, because it requires recompile system programs with closed source.

So I went on the road hacks - to modify existed layouts in xkblayouts :(

By: Mohammad

Mohammad — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:34:35 +0000

To add a new language the page which already been around for some time is here: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/i18n-addnewlanguages/

For the keyboard we don’t provide the ability to have a custom keyboard layout. File a wish list if you really want it and gather some votes. I can’t promise myself but surely lets hope that it can be made into reality.

By: Mohammed Sameer

Mohammed Sameer — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:21:48 +0000

As for the locale, there's a HOWTO on maemo.org somewhere. I failed to find it but I think It's in an opera tab at the office. Will probably find it tomorrow.

I'll also check the text input settings but no promises.