[Feature request] Key labels

[HaleyHalcyon]

I have a keyboard layout with multiple invisible or hard-to-distinguish glyphs (types of spaces and variation selectors, mainly), and would like a custom label system, like is possible on MultiLing O Keyboard:

Approach 1: similar to <shift/>

A new tag could be added to modmap so that specific key contents could be replaced when shown as labels.

<label type="&x200B;" show="ZWSP" />
<label type="[email protected]" show="📧" />

Approach 2: key-level

Alternatively, each key could have a “label” parameter for each direction.

<key key0="&x200B;" label0="ZWSP"; key1="[email protected]" label1="📧" />

[Julow]

This is possible (but not yet released): https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/blob/master/doc/Possible-key-values.md#kind-str

The syntax is:

<key key0=":str symbol='ZWSP':'&x200B;'" key1=":str symbol='📧':'[email protected]'" />

[michele-bs]

Imagine I want to write my email address - say '[email protected]' - when I press F1, with '@' shown on the F1 key.

<fn a="1" b=":str symbol='@:'[email protected]'">

Is this syntax correct? When will the :str kind be effective?

Thank you!

[Julow]

That should work except that you missed a ', try using: <fn a="1" b=":str symbol='@':'[email protected]'" />
You can download the latest debug version of the app at the bottom of this page: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/actions/runs/12422549961
Otherwise, it'll be part of next release.

[michele-bs]

That should work except that you missed a ', try using: <fn a="1" b=":str symbol='@':'[email protected]'" /> You can download the latest debug version [...]

It works! 🙂