Keyboard layout criterion

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Wed Jan 16 10:00:29 UTC 2013


> > "For new installations the keyboard layout selected in the
> > installer
> > should be configured as default in the installed system.
> > This includes the encryption pass phrase entry, the virtual
> > consoles,
> > the graphical login manager as well as the desktop environment.
> > For upgraded systems the same applies for the default keyboard
> > layout
> > that was configured prior to the upgrade."
> 
> The sad truth is that we _can't_ do that for plymouth and VTs right
> now. Not without extensive development that no one was willing to
> spend time on for the last many years. X layouts are different from
> console layouts and there is no 1:1 mapping.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743281
> 

But I still think Anaconda should be very honest here and warn users about our technology deficiencies. It doesn't.


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