New subject: [Bug 2278656] Please support org.freedesktop.locale1 keyboard configuration for Anaconda on Live environment

2 May 2024

      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278656
Bug ID: 2278656
           Summary: Please support org.freedesktop.locale1 keyboard
                    configuration for Anaconda on Live environment
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
         Component: muffin
          Keywords: FutureFeature
          Severity: medium
          Assignee: leigh123linux@googlemail.com
          Reporter: jkonecny@redhat.com
        QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org
                CC: epel-packagers-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org,
                    extras-qa@fedoraproject.org, fedora@raveit.de,
                    kevin@scrye.com, leigh123linux@googlemail.com,
                    nonamedotc@gmail.com, riehecky@fnal.gov
        Depends On: 2278655
  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora
This is a message for the Cinnamon spin:
Hello, I’m contacting you on behalf of the Anaconda team to raise awareness
that Anaconda has to change the backend which is used to control keyboard
configuration of the Live environment. That means that we will depend on the
org.freedesktop.locale1 D-Bus API and we are contacting you with a request to
support this API. Currently, Anaconda depends on libXklavier library, however,
we are forced to migrated from this solution to Wayland compatible solution for
various reasons:
* The libXklavier library is deprecated
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1955025 )
* Anaconda have to migrate to Wayland native solution which makes libXklavier
to crash
* The libXklavier doesn’t work great in some situations on Wayland environment
  * Anaconda was forced to not be able to configure keyboards which makes user
experience worse https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072941
Also, the Anaconda team got a lot smaller, so we are not in position to
maintain both solutions based on the system. That would get us into more bugs
in the future which we don’t have capacity to resolve. For that reason we are
requesting all the SIGs owning spins on Fedora to implement support which will
reflect this DBus API to the Live environment. More precisely, this API will be
used by Anaconda to read and change the currently set keyboard layout
configuration on Live media. Your Live environment should reflect on these
changes and apply them to the running Live environment. I’ll create a system
wide change soon to connect all the parties in one place but we wanted to reach
all of you beforehand.
What you need to do:
* Verify if you are already reflecting the systemd-localed keyboard
configuration on your spin Live installation environment.
* If the above is not correct, please implement this missing communication. For
inspiration (can’t be used in this version) feel free to take a look at the
Sway solution
(https://github.com/alebastr/sway-systemd/blob/main/src/locale1-xkb-config ).
For more information please see this
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/org.freedesktop.loca...
We would like to get these changes together with Wayland to switch to Fedora 41
if possible. In case you won’t be able to add support for the DBus service, we
will solve this situation with the same approach as described in bug above
which means that Anaconda won’t be controlling your system keyboard
configuration in the Live environment and users will be requested to set this
in the Anaconda for the installed system only.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and we will try to help you with this
migration process.
A note:
All the X11 spins might share the same solution.
Reproducible: Always
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278655
[Bug 2278655] Please support org.freedesktop.locale1 keyboard configuration for
Anaconda on Live environment
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[Bug 2278656] New: Please support org.freedesktop.locale1 keyboard configuration for Anaconda on Live environment