Package: xserver-xorg Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n It would be nice to be able to choose the right X layout in the installed system based on the choices made in D-I.
Please read below about the implementation proposal. Christian Perrier wrote: >>> Christian Perrier wrote: >>>> I think this probably belongs to xserver-xorg. The X keymap is set in >>>> that package's postinst. In that piece of code, I see nothing to >>>> properly handle Romanian keymaps (and, yes, this is ugly and not well >>>> scalable): >> (I think the next section deserves a bug of its own, but I'll let others >> judge >> this.) >> WRT the non-scalability, I agree and think we should add a step to the new >> language process[1] that would add pairs like: >> >> fr-latin9,fr:xmap=fr >> ro:xmap=ro >> ro-comma:xmap=ro,variant=comma >> >> Which should define DI to Xorg layout mappings and we could add that info >> directly as pacthes to xorg (or maybe console-data, or which is the >> most-hip-console-layout-database) and xorg could use that information during >> build to make the appropriate xserver-xorg.postinst section (of course, if >> added >> to other package than xorg, xorg would have to Build-Depend on that package, >> thus takign the most recent information). >> >> What do you think? > > > This is defintely interesting, so I'm very glad to announce that you > just volunteered to commit the appropriate patch to the D-I i18n doc, > Eddy..:-) I have committed the changes in d-i's SVN repo in revision 48042. > Given that we already have a step for new languages to specify the > console keymap and font, we could indeed just add the requirement for > X.org keyboard handling settings to that step, also. Still I think we should clarify the and format and the place where this information will be so that is easier for the X maintainers to actually use this information in a programatic way. For starters I think we should keep a list like the one I proposed somewhere in the D-I SVN repo. Is there an already existing package that seems appropriate to incorporate this information, or do we have to make a new package? -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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