Add Shaw Imperial layout #592
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| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> | ||
| <!-- Shaw Imperial layout for shavian alphabet, see https://www.shavian.info/keyboards/ --> | ||
| <keyboard name="Shaw Imperial" script="shavian"> | ||
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4 rows is a lot and corners are underutilized.
Any way of removing one by moving some characters to the corners of other keys ?
The "Shaw QWERTY" layout manages to have only 3 rows.
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Yes, I agree, that four rows make it rather tall, but I don't know if it is okay to move a whole row to corners of adjacent row. Shavian just has more letters than Latin. I think this change would make it a different layout... I'll test to see if I can come up with something that works well.
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Matching the official layout is also nice! That was just a suggestion, 4 rows is fine if it's the layout that you would use. Same for the alternating shift, choose what you'd prefer using.
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Well, I came up with something that works okay. I'm thinking this: will it be okay if I add both versions? So it would be like "Shaw Imperial" and "Shaw Imperial (Compact)".
I could add Shaw QWERTY too, btw.
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The layout selector is not ergonomic enough to handle too many layouts so I don't accept small variations and layouts without users.
But feel free to post any number of layout to https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard-layouts, which have a chance to be included in the app when the settings improve.
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Please use it for a while and then confirm when it's ready for merging. |
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I tested a few different options and for me the current one is the most comfortable to type with. I mean, the four-row version without staggering. You can merge it, if you have no other things to add. |
I see that there are no options for typing in shavian on android besides the keyman app. It is okay, but somewhat slow and it's not great switching back and forth between keyboard apps all the time. After I learned that one can add a custom layout to Unexpected keyboard, I immediately thought about finally unifying all my layouts in one app, so i don't have to switch all the time.
Hope it will be useful for somebody.
And thanks for this great project!