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Bug#131553: missing keyboard selection?



retitle 131553 Term "keyboard" is overloaded
severity 131553 minor
thanks

* Rich Johnson <rjohnson@dogstar-interactive.com> [20020211 09:37]:
> A note here--
> "Keyboard" seems to be an overloaded therm. There's:
>  - "keyboard"--the physical device, manufacturer, connector, etc--e.g.
> apple/mac-ext ADB; apple USB.
>  - "keyboard layout"--the positioning of the keys, usually to some
> national standard--e.g.  qwerty/us, dvorak/us, qwerty/de
> 
> Previous installers asked for _keyboard_ and offered a choice of physical
> devices.  The current installer asks for _keyboard_ and offers a list of
> national layouts.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com



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