956182 - [keyboard refactor] convert layout files to new format

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[David Flanagan [:djf]]

The refactored keyboard in test_apps/demo-keyboard/ uses a new simplified layout file format that will be much easier for localizers and others to customize.

But we have many existing layouts in the old format that need to be converted.

This bug is for writing a script to convert the old format to the new format.

Comment 1

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Attachment: Pull request 18151

WIP patch to add the layout definitions in new format.

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My script to do the covert lives in,
https://github.com/RudyLu/gaia/tree/keyboard/Bug956182-convert_layout_format_script

Comment 2

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Comment on attachment 8404623 [details] [review]
Pull request 18151

Patch updated to add the layouts in new format.

Tim,

Please help review this.
Thanks.

Comment 3

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Comment on attachment 8404623 [details] [review]
Pull request 18151

Thanks. Please upload your conversion script as attachment here for record keeping.

Comment 4

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Landed to Gaia master,
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/7b82adf8845eab68703d10d9064fc4401667f34f

Thanks.

Comment 5

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Attachment: script to convert the format

I patched keyboard-config.js directly so that it could do the work.
just do |APP=keyboard make| and it will generate the new layouts under build_stage.