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

[Denis Barbier]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:33:53PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:38:50PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > 
> > Hey, it finds spelling mistakes in XKB files, that's great!
> 
> In ckbcomp there are many lines with "Is this recognised by X ?".  If
> these lines are commented, it will bi able to find more spelling
> mistakes.  I wasn't sure which of these keysyms are valid and which
> are not.
> 
> > Hangul is a valid keysym though.
> 
> I couldn't find any Unicode for Hangul.  Or this is some control key?

See /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
  #define XK_Hangul                        0xff31  /* Hangul start/stop(toggle) */

> > It would be nice to find a solution so that $macs models look for
> > symbols in symbols/* without breaking current settings, but I failed,
> 
> It seams the only way to make
> 
>      -model macintosh -layout de nodeadkeys
> 
> equivalent with
> 
>      -model macintosh -layout de mac_nodeadkeys
> 
> is for each layout-variant combination to add a specific rule in the
> rules file.

You can try

      -model pc105 -layout de mac_nodeadkeys

instead.

> > Can you get rid of symbols/macintosh_vndr in console-setup, and only
> > consider mac variants?  (and of course mac_nodeadkeys, fr_mac, etc)
> 
> This is possible if console-setup uses its own rules file.  But then
> it would be impossible to use directly the configuration of
> console-setup in X.

You are right; it would be nice if macintosh_vndr/* had been removed
from xkb-data, but these changes happened too late and I did not want
to break other programs.

Denis