Re: ([I18N, USABILITY] configure keyboard dialogs)
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:33:15AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
> http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/mini.iso
>
> Could people please give it a try?
I was unable to test it but I read the code. Now I am even more
convinced that it is not an easy thing to do to provide console-setup
with a comprehensible all-in-one layouts-question.
Here are my comments.
> 3)
> - if \
> + if [ -f /usr/share/console-setup-mini/keyboard ]; then
> + # ask simplified layout question in Debian installer
> + db_input critical keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap || true
> + if db_go; then
> + STATE=$(($STATE + 1))
> + else
> + STATE=$(($STATE - 1))
> + fi
> + db_get keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap
> + keymap="$RET"
> + layout="${keymap%(*}"
> + variant="${keymap#$layout}"
> + variant="${variant%)}"
> + variant="${variant#(}"
> + default_layout="$layout"
> + default_variant="$variant"
> + db_set keyboard-configuration/layoutcode "$layout"
> + db_fset keyboard-configuration/layout seen true
> + db_set keyboard-configuration/variantcode "$variant"
> + db_fset keyboard-configuration/variant seen true
What is the point of db_setting layoutcode and variantcode here? Won't
these be overwritten in step 4? (If not, then the code is wrong for the
non-latin languages).
> - db_beginblock
> - if [ "$latin" = no ]; then
> - db_input high keyboard-configuration/toggle || true
> - db_input medium keyboard-configuration/switch || true
> - fi
> - db_input medium keyboard-configuration/altgr || true
> - db_input medium keyboard-configuration/compose || true
> - if [ -f /usr/bin/X ]; then
> - db_input medium keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp || true
> - fi
> - db_endblock
> + if [ -f /usr/share/console-setup-mini/keyboard ]; then
> + # skip the questions without making Debconf loop
> + STATE=$(( $STATE + $STATE - $old_state ))
> + else
> + db_beginblock
> + if [ "$latin" = no ]; then
> + db_input high keyboard-configuration/toggle || true
> + db_input medium keyboard-configuration/switch || true
> + fi
> + db_input medium keyboard-configuration/altgr || true
> + db_input medium keyboard-configuration/compose || true
> + if [ -f /usr/bin/X ]; then
> + db_input medium keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp || true
> + fi
> + db_endblock
These questions (or at least one of them) must be asked by d-i. Notice
the high priority of the keyboard-configuration/toggle question for the
non-latin languages.
> +Template: keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap
> +Type: select
> +Choices-C: us, by, be, br(abnt2), br, gb, bg(bds), ca, ca(multi),
> hr, cz, dk, nl, us(dvorak), ee, fi(fi), fr(latin9), de, gr, il, hu,
> is, it, jp, kg, latam, lv, lt, mk, no, pl, pt, ro, ru, rs(latin), sk,
> si, es, se(basic), ch(fr), ch(de), th, tr(f), tr, ua
This list is missing the various Indian layouts, Georgian, Hebrew,
Arabic, Chinese, etc. Even some Latin languages that are supported on
the console but only by console-setup and not by console-data (such as
Vietnamese) are missing here. For Bulgarian it is imperative to add
'bg(phonetic)'.
> 3)
> - if \
> + if [ -f /usr/share/console-setup-mini/keyboard ]; then
> + # ask simplified layout question in Debian installer
>
> [...]
>
> + elif \
> [ "$unsupported_layout" = yes \
> -o "$default_variant" != other ]
> then
This simplified question is going to be asked not only in d-i but also
by keyboard-configuration if console-setup-mini is installed (and in
general this is ok because it would help if one is able to test the udeb
as a standalone package also). The problems: 1. the layout in
/etc/default/keyboard will be overwritten if it is not included in the
list of keyboard-configuratin/xkb-keymap. 2. the same can happen in the
udeb if the user uses preseeding.
It would help partially to skip this question when the layout is not
supported (i.e. to swap the if's of the quoted code above). Even then
the problem will remain for layouts that are supported by console-setup
but not by the new simplified question.
Anton Zinoviev
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