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I ran through the same thing back when I wrote my own operating system. Getting the keyboard to work properly was, in my opinion, the hardest part. Of course, I cheated and used Linux's memory management... I think some Russian keyboards do give out different signals, but don't quote me on that.<br><br>> Subject: Re: Proposed release criteria additions for F14+<br>> From: awilliam@redhat.com<br>> To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org<br>> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:58:29 -0700<br>> <br>> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:44 -0400, James Laska wrote:<br>> <br>> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_login<br>> > <br>> > Perhaps demonstrating my familiarity with only keymap=us, but using a<br>> > different keymap requires a different keyboard right?<br>> <br>> Not in fact, no. Try selecting a UK keymap and hit shift-3. =) This is a<br>> quick and easy way to do this test if you only have a US keyboard -<br>> select the UK keyboard map and create usernames and passwords with UK<br>> currency symbols in 'em. Most other symbols are the same (though \, >,<br>> @, " and | move about a bit...)<br>> <br>> (In fact the whole user-selected-keymap paradigm exists because<br>> 'different keyboards' aren't really that different. They all send the<br>> same physical signals, whatever's written on the keycaps. This is why<br>> you have to manually pick the right keymap to make what gets printed on<br>> screen match what's written on your keycaps. If there was actually some<br>> identifiable electronic difference between differently-labelled<br>> keyboards, we wouldn't have to ask the user to select a keymap at all,<br>> we could just pick the appropriate one automatically. <br>> <br>> I recommend not digging too far down this rabbit hole, as you'll learn<br>> all about wonderful things like the fact that there's actually three<br>> layers here - keycodes, keysyms, and then what's eventually printed on<br>> the screen - and X gets in the way too. And dead keys and the way some<br>> international layouts need three, four or even five layers of<br>> characters...I did some work on keymapping for an unofficial port of<br>> Android to the HTC Touch Pro 2, which is even more entertaining because<br>> Android doesn't work like X at all and has its own odd conventions for<br>> converting keycodes to keysyms to characters. Whee!)<br>> -- <br>> Adam Williamson<br>> Fedora QA Community Monkey<br>> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org<br>> http://www.happyassassin.net<br>> <br>> -- <br>> test mailing list<br>> test@lists.fedoraproject.org<br>> To unsubscribe: <br>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test<br> <br /><hr />The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5' target='_new'>Get busy.</a></body>
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