Carlos Garnacho c609ffe0b5 data: Move extra keys to JSON files
Have these defined in the JSON files themselves, instead of trying
to add them from JS while minding the differences in number of levels
and rows.

This means more redundant data in the JSON files, but simplifies
OSK layout creation significantly, and allows finer control over the
appearance without quirks.

As a result, importing data from CLDR is no longer as straightforward
as running an script. After initial import, manual editions will be
required to add missing keys, assign key widths, and so on.

Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2278>
2022-08-10 17:11:26 +00:00
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2022-08-10 16:37:15 +00:00

Gnome-shell OSK layouts are extracted from CLDR layout definitions:
https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/keyboards/layouts/index.html

Updating these involves several steps:

1) Downloading and unzipping the tarball found at:
   http://www.unicode.org/Public/cldr/latest/keyboards.zip

   This file contains XML files describing the keyboard layouts.

2) Cloning the cldr2json script at:
   git://repo.or.cz/cldr2json.git

   It will be used to convert the XML files into JSON that can be
   directly consumed by gnome-shell.

3) Running the script to produce the files:
   ./cldr2json <input-directory> <output-directory>

   We shall usually use the "android" folder, since that's most
   complete, and similar to our UI and target sizes. And the target
   directory must be data/osk-layouts in this repository.

4) Modify gnome-shell-osk-layouts.gresource.xml to include the files

5) Do git add on the updated/new files, and git commit.


Or alternatively:

1) Run update-osk-layouts.sh

2) Do git add and git commit