Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

Hey TMO, Shaun from Everything N9 here. Just thought I'd share with you something that I posted on EverythingN9, and many users found great benefit with it. I had many requests to post it here too, so hopefully some of you may like this.

It's a modified keyboard for the Nokia N9, which addresses many of the weak points of the stock keyboard, included wasted space, wasted symbols, and always tapping that damned full stop when trying to tap space. Some of the other things include arrows, an intelligent position for the apostrophe, and quite a bit more.

Pics are worth 1000 words.

Letters page:

http://everythingn9.com/wp-content/u...1203132326.png

First symbols page:

http://everythingn9.com/wp-content/u...1203132346.png

Second symbols page:

http://everythingn9.com/wp-content/u...1203132409.png

Keyboard is not for everyone, I made it for myself, but some may not like the spacebar position nor numbers. Thats ok, your opinion ;)

Full instructions, download link, and a bit more detail are on EverythingN9 at the link below.

http://everythingn9.com/redesigned-k...r-the-nokia-n/

Of course, let me know how to make this better if you have constructive feedback.

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

Awesome work, thanks a lot! Have you investigated the cause of the bug you mentioned in the original post (arrow keys in messaging app)?

Packaging infrastructure in case you need it:

https://github.com/harmattan/keyboard-mod-everythingn9

Prebuilt package: keyboard-mod-everythingn9_1.0.0_all.deb

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

Thanks thp, appreciated. I'm more of a hacker of code than a programmer, and haven't been able to set up Scratchbox when I tried to compile the Deb as scratchbox kept going down when I tried.

I haven't done too much investigation, but in general the messaging app and arrows dont work. On my keyboard, it creates a square icon when you press it. On the N950 (apparently), and on my own bluetooth keyboard, the cursor moves, but as soon as you type, it puts the characters at the end of the line.

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

Nice, like the arrow keys and numeric layout, but - no quotation marks?

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

makes sense to have them on the first page, so as though you're doing a quote. As explained on the everythingn9 post, tap and hold the apostrophe key. That gets you your quotation marks ;)

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

Thanks, just one point. You can also place them in /home/user/.config/meego-keyboard/layouts/

This way you don't need to change to root. I believe that this way you also don't lose them if the firmware is ever updated (one can always dream).

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

Great work. Thanks :)

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

Downloaded and installed prebuilt package but still got the stock keyboard. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Thanks a lot....;)

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

After installation you need to select it from Settings->Time and Language->Text Input->Installed input methods

Once selected, you can choose the active keyboard to be of your choice...

Re: Modded English US and UK Keyboard, with improved symbols layout
 

Thanks so much for your valuable info! You have also proved that the dead is very much alive!! ;)