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Bug#493769: marked as done (gnome-control-center: UK Dvorak keyboard layout slightly amiss)

Your message dated Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:57:15 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #493769,
regarding gnome-control-center: UK Dvorak keyboard layout slightly amiss
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Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.14.2-7
Severity: normal

It is nice to see that there is a UK Dvorak keyboard layout in Gnome,
but there are a few things I consider amiss.

First, the positions of the " and @ signs are suboptimal - ideally in a
Dvorak layout, the " should be with the ', even though that is the US
standard. @ could quite happily go to Shift-2 or AltGr-' if this is
done.

Second, Shift-` produces ~. not ¬(notsign), but the # and ~ key is
still implemented.

It could actually be correct that the @ and " are in the positions they
are in, but if so I would like to see a reference to this as the UK
Dvorak layout elsewhere.

I am quite happy with the QWERTY layout but thinking of experimenting
with Dvorak.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  capplets-data          1:2.14.2-7        configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils     0.11-1            Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gnome-desktop-data     2.14.3-2          Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.14.2-2          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-menus            2.16.1-3          an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.12.4-3          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0          0.2.6-6           Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.16-3etch1     Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.16-3etch1     Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1         0.6.16-3etch1     Avahi glib integration library
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.14.0-3          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.14.0-5          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.2.4-4.1+etch1   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.0.2-1+etch1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-5          1.6.3-5etch1      Client library for evolution addre
ii  libesd0                0.2.36-3          Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1         2.4.2-1.2         generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.2.1-5+etch2     FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.16.1-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11            1.2.3-2           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.0-4         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.12.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2     2.14.3-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-keyring0      0.6.0-3           GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome-menu2         2.16.1-3          an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome-window-settin 1:2.14.2-7        Utility library for getting window
ii  libgnome2-0            2.16.0-2          The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.14.0-2          A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.14.1-2          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.14.2-7        GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgnutls13            1.4.4-3+etch1     the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-1             library for common error values an
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.10-4         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.10-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.8.20-7          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                1:1.0.1-2         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62              6b-13             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmetacity0           1:2.14.5-4        library of lightweight GTK2 based 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.14.3-11+b1      libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.3-0.2      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.14.8-5          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.15~beta5-1    PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.10-3            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 1:1.0.1-3         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.8-2             library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtasn1-3             0.3.6-2           Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1.1.7-4           X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.1-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.1-5         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxft2                2.1.8.2-8         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                 1:1.0.1-4         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           1:1.0.1-4.1       X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxklavier10          2.2-5             X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                2.6.27.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.1.0.2-5       X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.1-3         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxss1                1:1.1.0-1         X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxxf86misc1          1:1.0.1-2         X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3-13        compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  bzip2                       1.0.3-6      high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  evolution-data-server       1.6.3-5etch1 evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-session               2.14.3-5     The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-user-guide            2.14.2-2     GNOME user's guide

-- no debconf information

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Version: 1.5-1

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 11:01 +0000, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> Quoting "Julien Cristau" <jcristau@debian.org>:
> > I'm not sure what problem you're reporting here, exactly.
> >
> > I guess it's with this:
> >    key <TLDE> { [      grave,  notsign,   bar,           bar   ] };
> >
> > What would you have instead, and why is the current layout incorrect in
> > your opinion?
> 
> The line you give is correct. However, in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb,
> I have found that that line needs to be explicitly added.
> 
Aha.  Now that you point it out, it turns out this has changed in
xkeyboard-config 1.5.

This is the relevant commit:
commit 240171bcbeb8a80247d00f422726949cc375c48d
Author: Sergey V. Udaltsov <svu@gnome.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 29 01:15:41 2008 +0000

    fixed gb(dvorak), b.fd.o#18244

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/?id=240171bcbeb8a80247d00f422726949cc375c48d

Closing the bug, thanks!

Cheers,
Julien

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