Gaia/System/Keyboard/Roadmap

FxOS Keyboard Roadmap

This following are works being planned on the built-in keyboard app and the input management in System.

Keyboard app

Layout Improvements

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
900907	[Keyboard] Update the pinyin IME layout with the UX specification	P1	Luke Chang [:lchang] (inactive)	RESOLVED	FIXED	koi+	---
1015309	Symbol UI Keyboard should follow the recommendation	P1	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	VERIFIED	FIXED	---	---
1019472	[Keyboard] [ZhuYin] ZhuYin Keyboard should follow the recommendation	P2	DongShengXue	VERIFIED	FIXED	---	2.1
1020779	Adjust the key alignment for the bottom row of keyboard	P1	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	VERIFIED	FIXED	---	2.1
1021500	[Keyboard] Keyboard for Email shouldn't have '_' in the second row	P1	Raniere Silva	VERIFIED	FIXED	---	---
1021505	[Keyboard] [PinYin] PinYin Keyboard should follow the recommendation (similar to ZhuYin)	P2	wdeng@mozilla.com	VERIFIED	FIXED	---	2.1
1022609	Define 2 different symbol panels that includes ',' or not.	P1	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1024298	[Keyboard UX update] Show the full symbol panel for type="number"	P1	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1035619	[Keyboard] Search input type to use search icon on Enter key	P1	bharad	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1035641	[Keyboard] Customizable Enter Key	P3		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1044525	Keep DOMElement handling inside render.js and use key objects for business logic	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1047837	Allow each layout define more symbol pages and the relations for switching	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---

12 Total; 0 Open (0%); 7 Resolved (58.33%); 5 Verified (41.67%);

Architecture Improvements

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
993952	Big async reflow when toggling between two layouts	P1		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
994000	[Meta] Tarako 1.3t reflow hunt	P2		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1005751	[Keyboard] Make keyboard not to wait for settings db when showing up	P1	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1012531	[Keyboard] Make IMERender.draw() more efficient	P1		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1013155	[Keyboard] Don't wait for IMEngine for showing the keyboard	P1	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1013207	[Keyboard][Performance] Lazily load l10n.js	P2	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1015643	[Keyboard] A race-free and deterministic LayoutLoader and LayoutManager for keyboard start-up and current layout state	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1016179	[Keyboard] Correct Promise usage and some API changes	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1023729	Tracking: dismantle keyboard.js	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1023730	Move modifyLayout() to layout_manager.js	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1025520	Move touch event handling away from keyboard.js	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	2.1
1027979	Remove more dead code from keyboard app	--	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1029356	Move touch event handling away from keyboard.js (Part II)	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	2.1
1035062	Implement TargetHandler and TargetHandlersManager	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1040548	Move state (input sequence) out of IME engines and clean up the IME Engine API	--	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1040598	Move keyboard states out of keyboard.js	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1040603	Queue the UserPress events	--	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	---	---
1040611	Move IMEngines to their own workers	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1041411	Create KeyboardApp module to replace fakeAppObject	--	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1044508	[Keyboard] Stop using HTML in layout definition for 全/半 button	P2	wdeng@mozilla.com	RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1044743	Use the correct promise testing pattern in keyboard unit tests	--	watson.serrano	RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	---	---
1053158	Split |LayoutManager._updateModifiedLayout()| into smaller parts	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1072186	Freeze layout objects after they're loaded	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1072191	Move normalization of alternative chars to LayoutNormalizer	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1074613	Normalize layout's overwrite chars in LayoutNormalizer	--		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	---	---
1074653	[meta] Rearchitect IMERender, LayoutRenderingManager, AlternativesCharMenuView & Manager	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	3.0?
1094031	Let |LayoutManager. _updateCurrentPage| use |LayoutNormalizer. _normalizeKey|	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1097457	Input app launching and hardware.memory retrieval are asynchronous	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---

28 Total; 0 Open (0%); 28 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Visual Style Changes

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
1014454	[Keyboard UX update][User Story] Visual update on the number keyboard	P1	(Inactive after June) George Duan [:gduan] [:喬智]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1040621	Set lang attribute to the layout containing div	--	Anindya-Pandey	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---

2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Interaction Improvements

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
957031	key popups are far too brief	P3	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	2.1
985853	[Keyboard UX update][User Story] Hold shift to enter upper case characters	P2	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
985855	[Keyboard UX update][User Story] Update multi-touch typing behavior	P1	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)	VERIFIED	FIXED	---	2.1

3 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (66.67%); 1 Verified (33.33%);

Alternative characters menu

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
934209	Alternate keys list overflows	P1	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
985334	[Keyboard UX update][User Story] Second layer popup behavior on long press	P1	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---

2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

New Layout Support

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
993899	[Keyboard] Emoji layout in keyboard	P1	Reza Akhavan [:jedireza]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	3.0?
998917	Keyboard keys are reversed in RTL locales	--	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	VERIFIED	FIXED	---	---
1033185	[Keyboard][User Story] Persian keyboard	P1	Thatoo	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1033186	[Keyboard][User Story] Bosnian keyboard	P1	bruce <bruhuang@gmail.com>	VERIFIED	FIXED	---	2.1
1050558	Bosnian Word suggestion	P1	Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)	VERIFIED	FIXED	2.1+	---

5 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (40%); 3 Verified (60%);

Input Management

Features & Bugs

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
942309	[keyboard] keyboard layout language changes for input type=url and type=email	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	-	---
1035117	[Keyboard] To support password input	P1	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1037396	Visual refresh for IME menu	P2		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1097457	Input app launching and hardware.memory retrieval are asynchronous	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---

4 Total; 0 Open (0%); 4 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Refactoring & Architecture Improvements

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
1005752	[Keyboard] Should not setLayoutFrameActive(false) if we don't need to	P3	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1043121	Move IMESwitcher in keyboard_manager to another script	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1044744	Move IFrame management in keyboard_manager.js to another script	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1053041	[Tracking] Dissect Input Management Script (keyboard_manager.js)	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1053624	Extract and organize Input Management showAll()	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1054942	Dissect |KeyboardManager.updateLayouts()|	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1059663	Input Management scripts: Don't interchangeably use |group| and |type| variable names	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1059668	Move some keyboard removal logics from keyboard_manager.js to input_frame_manager.js	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1063457	Mark private members of KeyboardManager	--		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	---	---
1063461	Remove keyboard_manager.js from linter xfail list	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1074749	[Tracking] Implement InputWindow and InputWindowManager (originally KeyboardWindowManager)	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1075306	Implement InputWindow	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1093537	Move input app window management-related responsibility from KeyboardManager to InputWindowManager	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1112498	Implement sequential/Abortable task queues in Input Management	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---

14 Total; 0 Open (0%); 14 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Keyboard Settings

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ID	Summary	Priority	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Blocking b2g	Feature b2g
985851	[Keyboard UX update][User Story] Add settings shortcut to the IME selector	P1		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1035634	[Keyboard] Keyboard Settings should follow recommendation	P3	Arthur Chen [:arthurcc][inactive after 6/30]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	2.1
1040615	Keyboard Settings: Don't show Number layout in layout selection if it's the only one that supports type="number"	P3		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---
1115644	Implement RootPanel and standardize panel interface for KeyboardSettingsApp	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1115649	Differentiate concept of Panel and Dialog in Keyboard Settings	--	John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]	RESOLVED	FIXED	---	---
1115666	Clean up KeyboardSettingsApp stylesheet	--		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	---	---

6 Total; 0 Open (0%); 6 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);