Public bug reported:
Currently, the only way to specify xkb settings in a fully compatible
way that behaves well with Gnome is through using xkb rules.
However, rules are not user-editable (NOBODY should have to manually
edit ANYTHING under /usr/share on a system with an automatic package
upgrade system) and xkb has no hook for adding rules. Heck, rules/evdev
even has a big message on top saying that it shouldn't be edited.
This is an extremely big problem in my opinion. Both local configuration
beyond what's supported, and creating redistributable keyboard layouts
and options is extremely complex and ugly.
As a minimum, I'd like to be able to package up a 3rd party keyboard
layout, geometry, or option as a deb file that contains the symbols, and
a rules/evdev.part file, and be able to rebuild rules/evdev, evdev.lst
and evdev.xml from .part's on a live system using dpkg-reconfigure...
Ideally however, an end user should be able to just drop an appropriate
rules fragment file under /etc/X11/xkb/rules, and have it automatically
parsed on startup.
** Affects: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: xenial
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1738630
Title:
[improvement] xkb configuration cannot be extended without rebuilding
xkb-data package
Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Currently, the only way to specify xkb settings in a fully compatible
way that behaves well with Gnome is through using xkb rules.
However, rules are not user-editable (NOBODY should have to manually
edit ANYTHING under /usr/share on a system with an automatic package
upgrade system) and xkb has no hook for adding rules. Heck,
rules/evdev even has a big message on top saying that it shouldn't be
edited.
This is an extremely big problem in my opinion. Both local
configuration beyond what's supported, and creating redistributable
keyboard layouts and options is extremely complex and ugly.
As a minimum, I'd like to be able to package up a 3rd party keyboard
layout, geometry, or option as a deb file that contains the symbols,
and a rules/evdev.part file, and be able to rebuild rules/evdev,
evdev.lst and evdev.xml from .part's on a live system using dpkg-
reconfigure...
Ideally however, an end user should be able to just drop an
appropriate rules fragment file under /etc/X11/xkb/rules, and have it
automatically parsed on startup.
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