This keyboard layout provides a Swedish Dvorak (svdvorak) layout for OS X.
There are several Swedish Dvorak variants but, unlike in Norway, there is no standard Swedish Dvorak layout and the community is fragmented.
The major difference between svdvorak and the svorak layout is the placement of the Ö and Ä keys.
This layout has all major keys in the same place as the Xorg svdvorak layout. The difference is that , (), [] and {} symbols are kept on the same places as on the standard Swedish Apple layout (on the 7, 8 and 9 keys + shift and/or option key).
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Copy SwedishDvorak.* to '/Library/Keyboard Layouts/':
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Restart the computer. (github user dLuna reports that it is not necessary to restart the computer on Mac OS X 10.6.8, probably other versions too)
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Open System Preferences, go to Language & Text, then Input Sources, and tick Swedish Dvorak (svdvorak) in the list of input methods.
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Check "Show input menu in menu bar" to change keyboard layout from the menu bar.
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To use the keyboard layout on the login screen, open System Preferences, go to Accounts, then Login Options and select "Show input menu in login window".
I started Windows today and noticed there was no svdvorak layout available, so I created a new one using the free (as in gratis, not in freedom) MS Keyboard Layout Creator (v1.4). You can open svdvorak.klc in MKLC (and modify it if you want) to build a svdvorak layout for Windows.
The NorwegianDvorak.keylayout was created by Vidar Bronken Gundersen:
http://github.com/vibrog/no-dvorak-osx
I created this layout by opening the NorwegianDvorak.keylayout file in Ukulele and switched places between the Swedish ö and ä and the Norwegian/Danish ø and æ keys. Then some minor key adjustments was made to make the layout closer to the svdvorak variant in Xorg (created by Gunnar Parment).
Hopefully there will come a day when Scandinavian (specially Swedish) Dvorak typers will agree on a common layout so it can be included in all major operating systems. I chose to use the svdvorak variant because it is the one most similar to the standardized Norwegian layout.