Alright, I am starting to understand the issues. On why cycle keys + extended labels broke in PR 1.2: cycle keys was a "hidden" feature, which was never used by any official VKB layout. Extended labels, OTOH, were heavily used in almost all layout files. To my knowledge, there was no test case at all that would have covered the cycle keys feature … so it probably broke when we fixed some issues with the extended labels attribute. Sorry for that :-/

The more I think about, I think we (as in: the text input method team in Harmattan) did a huge mistake by not distributing the MeeGo Keyboard through the Nokia store. I mean, it made perfect sense to have the input method framework being handled as a system component (meaning: you cannot update it in any other way but through a system update), but the actual keyboard plugin should have been updated through Nokia store … and then it would actually have paid off that the MeeGo Keyboard source code is publicly available. Gah, hindsight 20/20 …