On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:15:28PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:42:52AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:48:31PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:09:14AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > > I documented what I did to make my German keyboard behave. > > > > It is in http://intevation.de/~bernhard/ppc/powerbook5,6/
> > > Can you please submit it to the BTS (at least once xorg hits unstable)
> > > to get it include upstream? It would be really nice because then
> > > *everyone* can benefit and not everyone would have to do "quick hacks".
> >
> > I published my hack to help others.
>
> This is not helpfull at all,
I tend to disagree, but I might just save the time at other occasions.
> please consider doing the right thing,
I did and I put up the reason why this was the right thing for me
to do in this perspective.
> and at least CCing one of the bug reports open
> about such things for documentation.
I have several bug reports that got treated badly
and rather have a good report then a bad one to not waste even more time.
I am happy to file a bug, but with my knowledge I cannot decide where.
It might be a kernel Xfree86 or Xorg bug and I have no real solution.
> Doing little hack in your corner is fine, but writing
> self-glorifying howtos is evil,
And I did not write a self-glorifying howto, to quote:
Others have wonderful pages about GNU/Linux installation
[..]
Note: I have not looked at Jochen's xkb work,
the following is a hack that I did quickly for myself.
> (no offense meant against you, just because of this kind of stuff
> nobody invests the time needed to fix the issues for real).
I cannot do this for all issues that I encounter, there are just too many.
Bernhard
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