XKB support?

[bam80]

Any chance to add ability to load/edit/save XKB layout descriptions? It's de-facto standard to handle keyboard layouts on Linux (X11/Wayland).

Here we have 20 years-old bug report requesting this feature: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30481

[Albert-S-Briscoe]

I'm working on a tool to convert the XKB geometry section (an obsolete and poorly documented but very powerful physical keyboard description built into XKB) to a JSON file that works on this. If you're still interested, are there any features you'd specifically want?

[HughP]

Yes I’m interested in this tool. Got a link?

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I'm working on a tool to convert the XKB geometry section (an obsolete and poorly documented but very powerful physical keyboard description built into XKB) to a JSON file that works on this. If you're still interested, are there any features you'd specifically want?

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[Albert-S-Briscoe]

I'm still working on it, but I'll put it on github soon, probably within a day or two. It's a heavily modified version of xkbprint with an original goal of Unicode keysym labels. It currently supports keyboard layouts with multiple sections and horizontal rows, and can show up to 2 groups with 3 levels per group.

[Albert-S-Briscoe]

It's still a work in progress, but a working version is now on my github. https://github.com/Albert-S-Briscoe/xkbprint-kle