Re: [Tails-dev] Fix for keyboard layouts in the greeter, ple…

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Author: intrigeri
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Fix for keyboard layouts in the greeter, please review
Hi,

winterfairy@??? wrote (20 Nov 2013 12:04:36 GMT) :
> Sorry I don't see it, but you are complaining about six lines added code
> being an maintenance burden,


Sorry :~/

> But I did some research anyway :)


\o/

> Reseach summary:


>  * Croatian language has code "hrv" [5], but the croatian keyboard
>    layout "hr" expects "scr" as language in xkeyboard-config [6].
>    According to multiple sources [1][2], "scr" is a now
>    deprecated alias for "hrv".


>    This looks like a bug in xkeyboard-config,
>    should I submit a patch to them?


>    I am a bit uncertain, as recently "hrv" has been added
>    for the keyboard layout "us/hbs" (serbo-croatian (us)).
>    I do not really know if "hr" (croatian) keyboard layout
>    is preferred for croatia.


>    Fedora installer selects "hr" it seems.


It would be awesome to have these uncertainties cleared, and upstream
xkeyboard-config do what we want, so that we don't have to diverge
forever (also, discussing this with upstream xkeyboard-config might
lead to better settings applied by the proposed temporary
workaround :)

>  * Norwegian is not fixed upstream.
>    I suppose I can submit a patch to them that fixes it.


Yes, please.

>    It works in Fedora installer, I haven't researched why.


I suspect they might have their own list of kludges...

>  * Sardinian is not a selectable language in Fedora installer
>    or Ubuntu installer, and we do not know which keyboard
>    layout it should use. It is not fixed upstream.
>    We cannot fix it upstream.


>    Should I file a bug report that it is missing?


I've found no ML for Sardinian in Debian either. Did anyone actually
complained about Tails' default keyboard layout for Sardinian? If not,
I think I'd rather not fixed a problem that nobody is affected by...
and the day we receive a complain, then we'll learn at the same time
what is their preferred keyboard layout :)

Cheers,
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