Export layout as svg

[groig]

This is useful for showing the layout in readmes and blog posts

Example output

[groig]

More output examples

Lily58

[groig]

Alpha

[groig]

B Slides

[groig]

Crbn

[groig]

Louhi

[groig]

Reviung34

[kbrock]

This is sweet.

I'm not in core, so take my suggestions with a grain of salt:

• Could you squash your commits (they looked like bug fixes more than separate commits)
• This seems similar to the load_layout funtion. Think this code may want to live over in the keymap editor?

Is there something non core contributors can do to move this forward?
I would love either this or kle export in the product.

[groig]

@kbrock Done and done.

[StevenCurran]

Any chance this could be merged? would be a very useful feature to have.

[groig]

Any chance this could be merged? would be a very useful feature to have.

II haven't had time to implement the changes requested by @NCKiser. If they are blocking, somebody else can give it a go, maybe.

[limexp]

This is a very useful feature.

I suggest the following changes to output device name:

self.keymap_editor.export_as_svg(dialog.selectedFiles()[0], self.combobox_devices.currentText())
...
def export_as_svg(self, filename, device_name):
...
generator.setTitle(device_name)

@NCKiser, if @groig has no time to implement fix this way or another is it possible to merge this PR and then merge a new one I'd create for this issue?

[ragnarok22]

Is there any chance to have this feature merged? This will be awesome to have, not only for blog posts but also to have it as a reference when you start with a new layout config.

[groig]

@limexp done

[limexp]

@NCKiser, could you please review this PR

[NCKiser]

I don't see any blockers on this, and also want to see this merged. It all looks okay with me, but I am not a maintainer of Vial.
@xyzz can this be merged? Is there anything you'd like to see changed?

[StevenCurran]

whats the hold up on this? its been open for months?

[ragnarok22]

whats the hold up on this? its been open for months?

correction: years 😔