Bug#555442: console-setup should support shifts_toggle

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

severity 555442 wishlist
tags 555442 wontfix
thank you

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:53:57AM -0600, Itai Seggev wrote:
>
> If I do a dpkg-reconfigure consle-setup, I get a nice gui for setting 
> all sorts of keyboard options.  However, my prefered layout toggle 
> option, grp:shifts_toggle, is not listed.  I managed to work around 
> this by direcly editing /etc/default/console-setup (is there some way 
> to directly edit debconf values?), but it would be nice if this option 
> were available using the standard front-end.

It is impossible to support shifts_toggle on the Linux console.  Thats 
why this option is not included in the debconf menu.  I added the tag 
wontfix because I think it will be inconvenient for the users to include 
partialy supported options.  If the other developers think that 
shifts_toggle should be included in the menu, I will make the required 
changes.

The proper way to tune the configuration of console-setup is to either 
use dpkg-reconfigure or to edit directly /etc/default/console-setup.  
The values in the debconf data-base are ignored.

Anton Zinoviev