Feature request: Use keymap styles from via.app keyboard definitions

[wojciechczerniak]

Great job with keymap styles 🎉 I have an idea how this feature can be further improved.

The Via App (https://usevia.app/) has keyboard definitions extracted to a separate repo https://github.com/the-via/keyboards that would be a great addition to display more realistic keyboard layouts.

Definitions have keys positions and sizes for specific keyboards. They can be detected from product id or selected from a list.

[conventoangelo]

This is a nice suggestion. The keymap styles were heavily based on the Monkeytype implementation. I will try to understand how the layout definitions work and then work on this. Implementing this may be challenging as it could break the previous keymap styles. Perhaps we could add a setting to use the VIA layout or something similar, and then specify the layout fetched from the VIA repository.

Additionally, there is the QMK repository with keyboard.json that also includes the same layouts. I'm guessing that could support more keyboards?

[3dyuval]

@conventoangelo
Are there any future plans rework some core implementations which would allow better adaptability for siutations like this?
What about using it on other platforms, ie Mac and Linux?

[conventoangelo]

@3dyuval Yes, I've already expressed my intent to implement this in other comments. Multi-platform support is also mentioned in other issues (e.g., macOS in #116 and Linux in #6). However, progress is hindered because I don't have a machine to test the macOS integration, and some of the open-source packages OverKeys depends on haven't been properly implemented in Linux yet.