feat(developer): ID field in new keys in the touch layout

[anvalon]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When pressing one of the green triangles with the “+” sign on the touch layout, a new key is created, whose “Text” and “Unicode” fields are set to an empty string and the “ID” field is set to a value in the form of “Tnew???” (where the question mark stands for any cipher). Then, writing a text in the “Text” field, let’s say “ŭ”, the “Unicode” field is automatically set to the “U+016D” value, but the “ID” field is not set to anything, while it could be more useful, if it was automatically set to “U_016D”.

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16.0.144

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[mcdurdin]

Thank you for this suggestion. I agree with you in principle. We'll see if we can implement it in version 18.0 :grin:

[Meng-Heng]

The original discussion - https://community.software.sil.org/t/auto-naming-keys/8241