Greetings,
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:26:55PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:19:31PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> [...]
> > Denis Barbier, can you review the XKB symbols file submitted, please?
>
> No sorry, I do not understand how to handle Apple keyboards, and they
> need a major cleanup, thus I prefer leaving that post-sarge.
> OTOH there will already be changes in XKB when switching to xorg, and
> Apple layouts are not multi-layout aware, so they can hardly be broken
> and I believe that you can add any such layout.
Ok, then I'll see that it gets into the ibook HOWTO-pages, because
right now the default keyboard is simply *broken* (you can access only
the "ordinary" letters, no [, no { no @). And it looks like every
non-US apple user has to pull his/her own keyboard layout.
The major thing to be decided is weather the ibook/powerbook keyboard
should match the OSX-layout or the PC layout. Since almost no extra
mappings (like [, {) are printed on the keyboard, this is mostly a
political question (a choice preferred, thought).
If you need me to test new keyboard layouts when it is time, please
contact me (but I only have a german ibook).
Thanks for taking care
Helge
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