Bug#420818: About #420818: console-setup: keymapper/detect-keyboard integration
Colin Watson, le Wed 16 Mar 2011 16:42:59 +0000, a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > On 24 Apr 2007 you reported:
> > > The attached patch makes use of the keymapper package (written by
> > > Matthias Urlichs, now maintained by me) to generate a decision tree
> > > which can be used by an intelligent debconf frontend to prompt the
> > > user to press some named keys and automatically detect the keyboard
> > > layout on the basis of the results. This system has been in use in
> > > Ubuntu for quite a while now (since Ubuntu 5.04, based on kbd-chooser;
> > > since Ubuntu 6.10, based on console-setup) and seems to work pretty
> > > well. It's really about time I had a go at getting it into Debian.
> >
> > Is this still used in Ubuntu?
>
> Yes, we still use this system.
I have seen several people getting wrong results simply because they
don't understand what's happening, while the Debian list of supported
keyboards does not support from such user errors.
Samuel
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