On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:38:49 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> wrote: > In the light of having Debian on all kinds of devices with touchscreens > (tablets/freerunner), I propose to add a virtual package > > x-keyboard > or may be better > x-onscreen-keyboard ? x- infers screen IMHO in the same way as x-terminal-emulator and x-window-manager, so x-keyboard is preferable. > and a equivalently named alternative > > Packages which I should provide it (there could be more): > xvkbd > qwo > matchbox-keyboard However, there is another issue here - if the device is multi-user, most login managers cannot cope with a touchscreen keyboard. gpe-login is one that can, gdm cannot. Having touchscreen keyboard support in X is good as long as the user can log into their X environment first. ;-) I'm not sure how the two issues should be related but if a device has an x-keyboard package installed, there should be some kind of link to a login manager that can cope with an x-keyboard. We cannot assume that all touchscreen or x-keyboard devices are single-user with auto-login enabled. > Upon receiving comments and if no objections made I guess I will file a > butreport against debian-policy to have virtual-package-names-list.txt > adjusted > > Meanwhile I CCing xvkbd and matchbox-keyboard maintainers to attract > their attention -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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