Bug#352405: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#352405: ..no dvorak entry in console-setup menu! (Need norse dvorak.)

[Arnt Karlsen]

Hi, 

..I forgot the cc.  ;o)
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:40:00 +0200, Anton wrote in message 
<20060211194000.GE6434 at debian.inet>:

> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:51:19PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > 
> > ...on running aptitude, the blue setup menu has a keyboard type
> > menu, easy, I chose "international 105", next step is harder, there
> > is no dvorak entry, and I need the norse variant of dvorak.
> 
> Since you live in Norway, on the next step you have to choose the
> "Norway" layout.  After that the third question should give you the
> following options:
> 
>    Norway
>    Dvorak

..a "duh!", agreed.  :o)

>    Eliminate dead keys
>    Northern Saami
>    Northern Saami, eliminate dead keys
> 
> The third question is asked with 'high' priority; obviously I have to
> raise the priority to be 'crytical'.  Another issue is the text "What
> is the keys layout of your keyboard" -- it must give some hint to the
> user, otherwise it is not very intuitive to find Dvorak keyboard as a
> variant of the Norway layout.

..it could be useful to offer an alternate menu tree, leave the first
hardware screen as is, then ask the "azerty dvorak qwerty qwertz" 
major layout family question, and under each entry, offer the relevant
localised layout variants.

> Do you think that when these two issues are fixed the bug can be
> closed?

..yes.


-- 
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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  best case, worst case, and just in case.