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. Please give as many details as possible about your work on D-I for the FR so that maitnainers who would not be part of the D-I team understand what's all this about. Some may raise objections as the freeze is going on. Please redirect them to -boot. > 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. Great work, anyway. Even though I haven't seen this, I think your descriptions gives a good picture of all this.
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