On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:15:28PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:42:52AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:48:31PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:09:14AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > > I documented what I did to make my German keyboard behave. > > > > It is in http://intevation.de/~bernhard/ppc/powerbook5,6/ > > > Can you please submit it to the BTS (at least once xorg hits unstable) > > > to get it include upstream? It would be really nice because then > > > *everyone* can benefit and not everyone would have to do "quick hacks". > > > > I published my hack to help others. > > This is not helpfull at all, I tend to disagree, but I might just save the time at other occasions. > please consider doing the right thing, I did and I put up the reason why this was the right thing for me to do in this perspective. > and at least CCing one of the bug reports open > about such things for documentation. I have several bug reports that got treated badly and rather have a good report then a bad one to not waste even more time. I am happy to file a bug, but with my knowledge I cannot decide where. It might be a kernel Xfree86 or Xorg bug and I have no real solution. > Doing little hack in your corner is fine, but writing > self-glorifying howtos is evil, And I did not write a self-glorifying howto, to quote: Others have wonderful pages about GNU/Linux installation [..] Note: I have not looked at Jochen's xkb work, the following is a hack that I did quickly for myself. > (no offense meant against you, just because of this kind of stuff > nobody invests the time needed to fix the issues for real). I cannot do this for all issues that I encounter, there are just too many. Bernhard
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