Bug#274457: Please test new ca, ch, hu, jp, mn and vn layouts for PC models

[Christian Hudon <chrish@pianocktail.org>]

Denis Barbier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> you filed bugreports for not being able to select multiple layouts.
> Could you please get new XKB files from
>  http://people.debian.org/~barbier/xkb/xkb-4.3.0.dfsg.1-8+SVN.tar.bz2
> and test your desired layouts?  These layouts can be loaded without
> problems, but as I am not familiar with them, it is pretty hard to check
> that everything works fine.  Since we are releasing soon, your feedback
> is very important to quickly solve problems if needed (or to know that
> it works ;)).
>  
I tried the Canadian French layout, and everything seems to work 
correctly. Among other things, the AltGr key (aka ISO_Level3_Shift) is 
finally at the right place.

One small nit would be to change the shorthand string (that is used by 
the gnome keyboard applet, etc. to indicate the current keyboard) from 
"ca" to something a bit more descriptive (like "fr_ca") for the French 
Canadian keyboard layout.

Hopefully these new keyboard layouts can be folded into a last X release 
for testing. Otherwise having a defective layout makes use of programs 
running under X pretty hard.

Thanks!

 Christian