Bug#270810: capplets: gnome-keyboard-properties does not load us_intl

[Stefan Kluth <skluth@mppmu.mpg.de>]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Denis Barbier wrote:

> reassign 270810 xlibs
> tags 270810 - l10n
> clone 270810 -1
> severity 270810 normal
> retitle 270810 /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 does not list all old layout files
> severity -1 wishlist
> retitle -1 Please add a multi-layout version of us_intl
> thanks
>
> Stefan Kluth wrote:
> > The gnome keyboard preferences panel, accessed through the keyboard
> > indicator applet, does not manage to load "us_intl" as keyboard layout.
> > Instead, a error report window pops up, but the content is not helpful.
>
> Please discard my previous comments, I had a closer look to this issue
> and found that:
>   a. XFree86 upstream introduced a multi-layout version of us_intl
>      after 4.3.0
>   b. Some old layout keymaps are not listed in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86
>
> For these reasons, I reassign this bugreport to xlibs, and will provide
> patches for both issues very soon.

Thanks a lot for your efforts ... I almost expected that capplets keyboard
indicator was not to blame and I was shooting the messenger but I don't
know the system well enough to be able to track this down.

Cheers, Stefan

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