Re: [LCFC] templates://freebsd-utils/{kbdcontrol.templates,module-init-tools.te mplates}
Esko Arajärvi wrote:
> Description: command-line tool to change FreeBSD keyboard layout
> This package provides the original FreeBSD command to set keyboard layout and
> the FreeBSD possible
> keyboards.
>
> The part "and the FreeBSD possible keyboards" is (to me) somewhat confusing.
> Justin's patch from 2009-04-20 says "plus the possible FreeBSD keyboards.",
> which seems to mean different thing. What actually is "FreeBSD possible
> keyboard"? A keyboard which can be used with FreeBSD? A keyboard specially
> designed for FreeBSD?" Keyboard model? Keyboard rules?
My reshuffle was just based on the syntactic rule that when there's
a modifying noun and a genuine adjective both modifying the same
noun, the adjective comes first; it's "strange keyboard layouts",
not "keyboard strange layouts".
"Possible FreeBSD keyboards" are the keyboard-layouts that are
available for FreeBSD (the things you switch between by using the
command referred to in the previous line). FreeBSD apparently uses
things like /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/finnish.iso.kbd - effectively
a keymap file, but formatted quite differently from the ones I see
in /usr/share/keymaps.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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