The Small layout for Onboard is missing russian letter Ж (je)

[Jacob Popov]

When using Onboard with the Small layout, the layout for Russian is missing the letter Cyrillic Ж (je).
Steps to reproduce:
1) Set up the input in Russian language in the System Preferences.
2) Start Onboard
3) Switch to Russian language
4) The last letter in the second row should be Ж (je) for Russian, not ' (apostrophe).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: onboard 1.1.2-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0 i686
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jan 14 19:00:33 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-10 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386 (20151021)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: onboard
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jacob Popov (j-a-popov)]

The problem lies in the file /usr/share/onboard/layouts/Small-RU.onboard
The lines 52-53 are
          <key group="alphanumeric" id="AC10" keycode="47" layout="be,fr,cm(azerty)"/>
          <key char="'" group="alphanumeric" id="AC10" label="'"/>

To fix the bug I added an extra line like this:
          <key group="alphanumeric" id="AC10" keycode="47" layout="be,fr,cm(azerty)"/>
          <key group="alphanumeric" id="AC10" keycode="47" layout="ru"/>
          <key char="'" group="alphanumeric" id="AC10" label="'"/>

That's it, Onboard works OK now.

[Jacob Popov (j-a-popov)]

The fixed layout file.
I renamed it and changed the description to leave the original file intact.
The only relevant change is the added line #53.

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

Thanks for your interest in Onboard and for filing this bug with a solution. I think that replacing line
<key group="alphanumeric" id="AC10" keycode="47" layout="be,fr,cm(azerty)"/>
with line
<key group="alphanumeric" id="AC10" keycode="47" layout="be,fr,cm(azerty),ru"/>
should also work.

Could you please check?

Thanks in advance.

[Jacob Popov (j-a-popov)]

Yes, sure! I've just noticed that there are more Cyrillic letters missing... I'm going to test it all and produce a fully-fixed file.

[Jacob Popov (j-a-popov)]

The fixed layout file. Fixed 4 buttons.

[Jacob Popov (j-a-popov)]

One more change, I think this will come handy in Russia. I changed one of the symbol signs to rouble, as that is Russian currency.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Thanks a lot. Shouldn't we add back the single quote somewhere, though? I realize the regular Russian key map doesn't contain it, but the phonetic flavors do. We could perhaps make room for it on the number layer by moving the ampersand to the symbols layer.

[Jacob Popov (j-a-popov)]

Hmm. I've just realized that we've still got a letter missing! The Russian Э (sounds like a as in 'apple') is rarely used but still...
I'm thinking of where to put that letter... On the full keyboard it's located to the right of Ж. That is, these letter replace English ; and '.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

How about adding э/Э to the long-press popups of Russian е/Е? Possibly ӭ/Ӭ too.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Thanks again for bringing attention to this, Jacob. I've pushed a couple of commits recently that I believe fix this bug. Find attached a screen shot of the new Small layout for Russian. If you think there should be any further changes, please let us know.

Here's what changed:
- There's an extra column of three keys in the main layer, which shows only for Cyrillic key maps.
- Cyrillic Yo ё/Ё can be reached by long-pressing Cyrillic Ye е/Е only. It's rare, though, only three occurrences out of 44k words of our Russian language model.
- The single quote is permanently available on the numbers layer.
- The Ampersand moved to the symbols layer, replacing the Korean Won symbol ₩. ₩ is still available on long-press of any currency symbol.
- The Russian ruble symbol ₽ replaces the Cent ¢ symbol on the symbols layer. ¢ is still available on long-press of any currency symbol.

If you can look it over, please do. I'm going to ask Francesco for a snapshot too, so you can test it in action.

Lastest commit:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~onboard/onboard/trunk/revision/2010

Also, for the record: Onboard's default layout is "Compact" which isn't affected by this bug report.

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

A Snapshot of trunk revision 2010 of Onboard containing the current changes of the Small layout is available in our Snapshots PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/ubuntu/snapshots

[Jacob Popov (j-a-popov)]

Thank you, marmuta! Thank you, Francesco!
Tested the new build from PPA on Ubuntu Wily. Great work! Your solution is elegant and nice.
Looking forward to seeing it in the Ubuntu mainline!
The problem is solved for Russian.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 1.2.0-0ubuntu1

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onboard (1.2.0-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

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