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

Arnt Karlsen arnt at c2i.net
Sat Feb 11 20:51:01 UTC 2006


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
>    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's actually the other way around; the Dvorak keyboard layout has a
Norwegian variant, which could fit in somewhere between the danish 
and english entry, not only because we dvorak users has done _precisely_
nothing to deserve your boycott.  ;o)

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

..yup.

> Anton Zinoviev
> 


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