[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#446851: Bug#446851: hal: German keyboard setting broken with new HAL version

[Julien Cristau]

Hi Michael

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 17:25:38 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Julien Cristau wrote:
>> Michael, would you consider adding the attached version of x11-input.fdi
>> to hal for now?  This doesn't change anything for keyboards, only
>> mice/touchpads, so wouldn't cause the same problems as the previous
>> version.  We can revisit the keyboard stuff after lenny.
>>
>
> I guess this should be pretty safe.

Cool.

> What do you think about adding a keyboard section, but commented out?
> With comments for the various available keys (at least the important  
> ones), like input.xkb.layout.
> On the other hand, the file would be installed to /usr/share/hal/fdi, so
> probably only few people would look at it anyways.
>
Maybe keeping the keyboard part in /usr/share/doc/hal/examples/ for now
would work (I think it's more likely for people to look there than in
/usr/share/hal/fdi).

Cheers,
Julien