This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 11 November 2024 — 06 December 2024.
As always, you can follow all of our development online at github.com/keymanapp/keyman, and you may find the Keyman Development Status Site at status.keyman.com both interesting and slightly overwhelming!
Keyman minor releases
Keyman 18.0.139 alpha through 18.0.153 alpha were released in this cycle.
Significant updates in these versions include:
- Linux:
- Added support for Ubuntu Plucky Puffin (#12675)
- Android:
- Enhanced Enter key for FirstVoices app (#12745)
- Keyman Developer:
- Documentation:
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyboard updates
New keyboards
- The new karambolpoular keyboard is a popular fouta djalon keyboard. Poulaar and Arabic characters (#3143). Credits to sven-oly.
- The new Anglo-Furthorc-English keyboard contains the characters necessary for typing modern English using the Anlgo-Furthorc runes (#3198). Appreciation to OscarEwen.
- The new triqui_itunyoso is a mobile keyboard for Itunyoso Triqui (#3200). Thanks to kaylashames.
- The new Gautami Inditran keyboard is for IPA transcription and IAST/ISO-15919 transliteration of Indian languages and scripts (#3203, #3207). Contributed by Gautam Sengupta.
- The new Winchus keyboard allows you to write in any Quechua language (#3241). Appreciation to alex-larkin.
Keyboard enhancement
- Thanks to Cathaylaboratory for updating the following keyboards:
- Taiwan Austronesian keyboard v1.2 has a new layer to mobile layout (#3197).
- Taigi Viet Telex keyboard v3.0 provides more kanji vocabulary and key rules (#3199).
- foochow keyboard v1.2 introduces the CAPS layer on mobile.
- Ahmao (SIL) keyboard v1.3 (#3210):
- Added the Augmented Traditional and the Normalised character sets.
- Changed “k” to produce
U+16F21instead ofU+16F20. - Changed
U+16F28to use “\”.
- Jarai ចារាយ (SIL) keyboard v1.2 fixed on-screen keyboard and added new vowels (#3243).
3 thoughts on “Keyman Update for 06 December 2024”
keymaper · December 9, 2024 at 7:43 pm
With over 900 layouts available, plus 300 deprecated ones, the help page can be confusing to navigate. To make it more user-friendly, I suggest simply ordering the layouts by region. This approach would allow users to save time and make the page more helpful and faster to find the desired keyboards. The regions I propose using are the ones listed on unicode.org/charts, which are already used for organizing scripts. Ordering keyboards by region is more intuitive than ordering by script, and it avoids potential problems. By categorizing the 960+ keyboards into regions, the page would be easier to use. https://community.software.sil.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/ef67c5923d53da2679c3f895a65ac9b2a791673b.jpeg
Marc Durdin · December 10, 2024 at 1:00 am
It’s a good idea, but it will be low priority for us because most users do not access the keyboard help by navigating through that page — they access it directly from the app. There’s actually a lot of complexity in organizing keyboards (e.g. where does an English keyboard go — Europe or North America?) and the keyboard search on keyman.com is the best starting point. The help keyboards page is really there to ensure that the documentation is indexed.
key man · December 9, 2024 at 7:47 pm
https://community.software.sil.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/ef67c5923d53da2679c3f895a65ac9b2a791673b.jpeg
add categories to help page, with 900+ keyboards its impossible to navigate