[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: Ubuntu keyboard/installer plans

[Denis Barbier]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 04:32:14PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:56:05AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> >
> > I did not understand your points above, what is the problem with
> > macintosh_vndr/* layouts?
> 
> The problem is the same with all non-pc layouts.  The current
> rules/xorg and rules/xorg.xml files require that same layouts are
> available regardless of the keyboard model.  However the mac layouts
> do not support all variants that the main layouts support.  For
> example there is gb(dvorak) but there is no macintosh_vndr/gb(dvorak).
> As a result the configuration programs (including console-setup) will
> try to use macintosh_vndr/gb(dvorak) and fail.
> 
> One good solution in my opinion is to make the macintosh layouts
> variants of the main variants.  In that way one can set mac layout on
> pc keyboard and vice versa - to use pc layout on mac keyboard.  For
> example gb(macintosh) can be used instead of macintosh_vndr/gb(basic).

Yes, this was also upstream goal, I will try to do it this weekend
for macintosh layouts.
Anton, I will stop working on kbd, are you interested in taking my
seat as pkg-kbd admin on alioth?

Denis