Comment 7 for bug 1259371

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marmuta (marmuta) wrote :

It should be clearer when you look at the new return key in inkscape.
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~onboard/onboard/trunk/view/1671/layouts/Full%20Keyboard-Alpha.svg

Notice it is made of two shapes that are grouped together. Right-click on the return key for "Object Properties" to see that the whole group has now the id "RTRN", not the individual shapes. Onboard will now consider the whole group to be the return key. To edit the group's contents (without destroying the group), you can "enter" it by right clicking and selecting "Enter group ...".

The outer shape is similar to the key from your layout. It tells Onboard how the key looks when the key size in Preferences->Themes->"Customize Theme" is set to 100 (%).

The second inner shape is new and it is optional. It tells Onboard how the key looks when you set the key size to 50 (%). The shape for all other key sizes is then interpolated between these two shapes.

Hope that helps a bit. If non-rectangular keys ever become popular we may still need a tutorial somewhere.