Re: Bug#230832: xserver-xfree86: XkbVariant was fi, kb not working in X
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Remove Branden from CC list and replace by debian-x....I think it's
> important that the X Strike Force is informed of issues related to
> installed X environment on fresh installs.
>
> (keyboard variant automagically set to "fi" on a fresh install in Finnish)
>
> > This has probably been done by the localization-config package which is
>
> s/probably/certainly
>
> So you were right in reassigning this bug,
> Frans. The problem is now : is this a bug or a feature ? :-)
>
> > run as part of base-config. It's function is to preconfigure some
> > packages (selected settings) based on the language/country the user
> > selected.
> >
> > However, it should of course never set values leading to a broken
> > configuration.
>
>
> Well, the problem here is determining if the configuration *is* broken
> or not.
>
> On of localization-config (maintained by Konstantinos Margaritis)
> goals is trying to give a solution to a very common problem with fresh
> installs in localized environments:
>
> As soon as the user has a non US keyboard, (s)he configured it
> properly in the kbd-chooser part of d-i, but afterwards, when
> installing X (often through the "desktop" task of tasksel), the
> keyboard still used a "us" layout.
>
> This was mostly due to the kbd layout question being medium priority
> in X packages, so it was skipped during the install.
>
> We (d-i team) had tons of reports with users not understanding why
> they has a US layout in X while they did choose another layout during
> the install.
>
> localization-config tries to circumvent this by installing "safe"
> defaults based on the localisation environment. So, in Tapio's case,
> as the install was probably done in Finnish, the X keyboard layout was
> set to "fi".
>
> Konstantinos explicitely asked (in -i18n, IIRC) for input about the
> best mapping, so I guess that using "fi" when the language is Finnish
> was suggested to him by a Finnish contributor.
Well, i think the main problem would be : 1) to higher the priority of keymap
question in X, and 2) make localization-config only provide the default, but
not mark the question as seen or something.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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