On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:28:13 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:34:28PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > There's some info about that change in > > /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/NEWS.Debian.gz. I think it's more appropriate > > to have it there rather than in keyboard-configuration, since that's > > where the change was made, and that's also the package that's getting > > upgraded from lenny as opposed to a new package. Suggestions for > > improvement of that text are welcome. > > I was looking really hard for this information, but xkb-data is one > package that never occured to me to look at - I saw it in the list of > xkb-related packages, but it seemed obvious to me that it would just > contain definitions of particular layouts and not concern itself with > talking about general xkb options. > Well, it defines all the various layouts, variants, options, etc, but point taken. > I think the wording is fine, it is just not obvious to look for that > information in xkb-data. Traditionally, the shortcut to zap the X > server has been regarded as a core X server functionality, so > traditional users are also not that likely to look at xkb-data docs. > The NEWS file is shown on upgrade if apt-listchanges is installed. > What about adding this in /etc/default/keyboard ? > > # The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same > # values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options > -# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > +# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Notably, XkbOptions now needs to explicitly > +# set "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" to enable the traditional X server > +# zapping behavior. > I don't really like this. It really is a 'default changed between lenny and squeeze' issue, so I think a NEWS file and release notes are more appropriate than cluttering the config file with it. > Another option would be to at least make sure that the Squeeze release > notes outline this clearly. I'm not sure what the process for this would > be as there seem to be no release notes available yet. > Bugs can be filed against the release-notes pseudo-package. Better yet to include suggested wording ;) Cheers, Julien
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