feat(developer): Hotkey/rapid swap between default and shift views when editing a mobile keyboard
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- Pascal
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Description
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Some .kmn files have characters grouped by the character type, rather than separated into distinct uppercase and lowercase groups. When manually converting a physical keyboard layout into a mobile layout, it can be tedious switching between the default and shift layouts to add each character one by one, especially on smaller screens where you must first scroll to access the dropdowns and keycap values respectively.
I like to have the .kmn code splitscreened with the touch layout editor so I can easily copy/paste the unicode between them, but this makes switching between layers quite slow.
### Describe the solution you'd like
Having a hotkey combination to toggle between the different Touch Layout layers would be handy, or on the more complex side, the ability to define rules for the layers in a single view (i.e. setting up upper and lower case characters at the same time).
### Describe alternatives you've considered
The current best alternative is to have Keyman at full width (still has a slight scrollbar, but all elements are at least partially on screen) and alt-tab between windows, or to have two monitors (unfortunately not an option at the moment).
### Related issues
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### Keyman apps
- [ ] Keyman for Android
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- [ ] Keyman for Linux
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### Keyman version
17.0.326
### Operating system
Windows 10
### Device
Oryx Pro (System76)
### Target application
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### Browser
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### Keyboard name
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### Keyboard version
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