Drag and drop keys / chars on keys not implemented

[kutspam@…]

With R5's keymap pref app you can drag the characters displayed on the keyboard to different keys replacing the 'old' character with the 'new' dragged character. IIRC it is also possible to select 1 char from the text input field to a key. Note that the Zeta keymap pref app doesn't have this feature.

Feature request: make a better implementation; not replace but 'switch' characters, example Czech keymap is QWERTZ I'm used to QWERTY but only want to switch the Y , y and Z , z keys. You can more easily make your own keymap by this.

[kutspam@…]

Also you can't have multiple user keymaps like R5. Where are opened keymaps opened? I see only current

[korli]

Editing the keymap is an unimplemented feature (yet).

[nutela]

There is a post on the Haiku website ​http://haiku-os.org/community/forum/keymapping_ideas :-)

[mmu_man]

I think Zeta took some code from Haiku for the prefs, so it would explain it doesn't have that feature.

[jackburton]

I think it would make sense to have a separate window with all the available characters , from which you could drag and drop them into the "keyboard" window.

[wkornewald]

While this is a neat feature I think it should be marked as low-priority. Most people will just stick with one of the pre-defined keymaps. Also, you can already modify keymaps with a text editor and the keymap tool in our repository.

[nutela]

Replying to wkornewald: I agree, the best compromise is IMO the BeOS R5 one, you have a buffer (the text edit field) and the keymap itself although I would not mind if there was an option in the style of modifier-key + dragging which would swap key's if you would drag 1 char from 1 key to another key.

[nutela]

And an option to add/remove/modify keys on the keyboard would be appropriate too but definetely an R2-feature.

[korli]

Axel started on this.

[axeld]

Left click drag now copies, right click drag switches the keys. Currently, this only works for normal keys, not for modifiers (like on R5). But that's an improvement left for the future :-)