Ben Reaves
2 min readDec 26, 2020

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I do admit that I need to do a better job of language detection with my own kinto.sh project, which you gave me feedback on awhile back and I appreciated that very much.

I have put up an Amazon Wish list as of yesterday so if people want to purchase a keyboard for me in their native language they can or purchase me gift cards so I can fund that endeavor, if their keyboard is not listed in my wish list.

There will likely be 2 or 3 language related updates happening in the future on my own project.

1) Updating xkeysnail to support language detection automatically to whatever extent it can. The hardware detection as you mentioned - level 0.

2) Add in the ability to quickly change the language in the system tray of Kinto. Level 1. It should both be GUI and hotkey driven imo, with the ability to toggle through a limit set of languages.

On another note I did add in a setup wizard that greatly simplifies the Kinto setup on Linux. Where I would ask numerous questions during setup before I managed to dwindle that down to a single request of the user, to press the 2nd key left of the spacebar. After they do that everything is configured properly. I discovered during the creation of the wizard that there was really only that 1 key that could tell me if the user is on 1 of 4 different keyboard layouts that I support.

Since you have pointed out that the Raspberry Pi keyboards have this language flag built in I definitely need to add that to my wishlist of keyboards to support.

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