Le mardi 10 août 2010 à 09:09 -0400, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
> Quoting Thibaut Girka (thib@sitedethib.com):
> > Hi,
> > Lately, I've been trying g-i on the FreeRunner, and one of the obvious
> > issues is that the FR doesn't have a keyboard.
> > So, I've decided to make a matchbox-keyboard udeb.
> > First thing is that it requires a few libs which don't have a udeb yet
> > (I have patches for that, should I file a bug against the adequate
> > packages, with the patches included?).
>
> Sure, to guarantee that nothing is lost.
Ok, will do that soon.
> > Second thing is that it needs a window manager (otherwise, it'll be
> > misplaced, cover g-i, and take focus when clicking on it, which defeats
> > the purpose of an on-screen keyboard).
> > So, I've made a matchbox-window-manager udeb, configured differently
> > from the matchbox-window-manager package so it depends only on things
> > that already have a udeb.
> >
> > For now, each of the two packages ship a script
> > in /lib/debian-installer.d/ to start (unconditionally. How to be sure
> > there is no keyboard? Query X? udev? And I've heard about security keys
> > that behaves like keyboards...) after X.
> > Should this files be shipped in those packages, or in some other package
> > (rootskel-gtk, or some package made for the occasion)?
>
>
> Would be nice to have this in D-I SVN. Maybe first under people/
> before we move it to packages/ when things are reviewed/ready.
Well, those (matchbox-{window-manager,keyboard}-udeb) are built from the
same packages than matchbox-window-manager and matchbox-keyboard, so, it
shouldn't be in packages/.
I'll file a bug when I'm sure about the /lib/debian-installer.d/ thing.
> Great work, anyway. Even though I haven't seen this, I think your
> descriptions gives a good picture of all this.
Thanks
If you want to try, I can build an image for x86/qemu right now.
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