Re: Request to add a new layout for Malayalam

[Ajith R]

Dear Mike,

Thanks for your reply. Sorry that I didn't read about the reqirement for icons 
before submitting them. I am attaching the 48x48 pixel icons as desired. Hope 
these are sufficient,

Thanks,
Ajith






On Thursday, 2 November, 2023 at 08:52:06 pm IST, Mike FABIAN 
<mfabian@redhat.com> wrote: 





Ajith R <ajithramayyan@yahoo.co.in> さんはかきました:


> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I am Ajith R from Kerala, India. I have developed a new layout for
> Malayalam (named Puthunira Charutha [pnC for short]) based on usuage
> frequencies of characters . As it necessitates change of punctuation
> marks from their locations known from QWERTY layout, there is a
> slightly modified version of QWERTY English to use along with
> Puthunira Charutha, named Puthunira English Quick Fix (pnEqf for
> short). I am attaching the mim files for the two layouts and icon
> files for them. I request you to kindly add these new layouts.
>
> The paper showing the study is available at 
> http://languageinindia.com/july2023/drajithnewkeyboardsmalayalamfinal1.html
> Instructions on using the layouts is available at 
> https://ajithramayyan.gitlab.io/puthunira
> The gitlab repository is at https://gitlab.com/ajithramayyan/puthunira


Thank you very much, I will have a look!

First of all, the your two images ml-pnC.png and en-pnEqf.png look very
nice but they are huge and not suitable for the places the icons of the
m17n-db input methods are usually shown.

For example the icon hi-itrans.mim
(https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/m17n/m17n-db.git/tree/icons/hi-itrans.png)
for the hi-itrans.mim input method and other looks like this in the
input switcher overlay window (Screenshot-input-method-switcher.png, usually 
this pops up like this when
Super+space is typed except on Gnome where it looks different), the
ibus-setup tool (Screenshot-ibus-setup.png), the ibus-typing-booster
setup tool (Screenshot-ibus-typing-booster-setup.png), the ibus floating
panel (Screenshot-floating-panel.png), the panel of the
window-manger/desktop (Screenshot-panel.png, here from the i3 window
manager as an example).

In all these places, only a square icon really fits well.

The existing icons in
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/m17n/m17n-db.git/tree/icons are all
48x48 pixel transparent png files.

Also in this online documentation, the icons for all input methods are
square: ttps://www.nongnu.org/m17n/manual-en/m17nDBData.html

Can you make 48x48 transparent png icons like this for your input methods?




-- 
Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>
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pnE.png
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