Switching sections of keyboards in MeeGo and phone numbers layout (Nokia N9)
 

Preface
So you can make many layouts and switch with swipe... You can, but do you have to? The answer is no - you can switch with a button within a single layout.

The switch button is a button with a special action (action="switch"). It can have any label but in default keyboards labels indicate in which section you are in (1/2 stands for 1st of two sections).

Attached Polish keyboard layout with phone-like numerics
Anyway I'm attaching a ready to use keyboard layout. It's based on Polish layout, but you can easily change it be anything. The layouts should be placed in `/home/user/.config/meego-keyboard/layouts/`.

Note that after you download attached files you need to remove the `.txt` extension.

Also note that the layout will be available after restarting your phone.

What the files are (for those willing)

• pl_phone.xml - this is the main file and is copy of pl.xml. Note that you can use any main layout you like (use the once you find in `/usr/share/meegotouch/virtual-keyboard/layouts/` or any from e.g. mesinput.com). What you should change is:
  • the title attribute (I use "Polski telefoniczny")
  • the catalog attribute (I use "pl" as it is for Polish language)
  • the language attribute in most cases should be the same as catalog
  • import tags at the bottom should include one or more files with additional section. Note that you can use existing files in `/usr/share/meegotouch/virtual-keyboard/layouts/` just by giving their name (not whole path). Do note that your layout will not work if you just import everything - sections in layouts must have unique id attributes.
• phone_symbols.xml - this is section0 and section1 of my layout
• symbols-38-34.xml - this is a copy of original symbols sections with their ids changed to section2 and section3.

So how does action="switch" work? From what I've tested it just cycles from symbols0 to symbols1 (current +1) and then back to symbols0 after there are no more symbols sections.

Note that you can put anything in symbols sections it can be a qwerty keyboard, Dvorak, your favorite simlies or whatever. You just need to remember to add the switch action so you will not be caught in a dead end.

Have fun :)