Migrating console layouts to xkb
Hey, folks. This is a bit late, but I wanted to draw your attention to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837292 . The systemd folks
and Vitezslav Crhonek are working on a plan to stop the insanity of
having an entirely different set of keyboard layouts for consoles (kbd)
and X (xkb).
The short-term plan is to replace the kbd layouts with a set of layouts
that have been generated from the xkb layouts. There's a test package in
comment #38:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837292#c38
which Vitezslav was looking for some feedback on. I was hoping people on
this list might be able to provide the feedback he wanted, and perhaps
look at the changes in the package compared to the old kbd and see if
you can see any issues with this approach.
Hopefully, once this is done, it will be a good solution to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889562 for most languages:
we will no longer have the cases where you pick an xkb layout in
anaconda and systemd-localed can't find any matching kbd layout, so you
just wind up with a US English layout on consoles.
I believe there's a long term plan by which we really wouldn't have
different input systems at the console and X level any more, which would
make things even more awesome, but I don't know how close we are to that.
I am trying in general to get on top of the whole massively complex
thicket of locale and language settings - through the stack, from
systemd to anaconda to desktops - to see if we can get all the
components singing from the same hymn sheet, but it's sure a lot to wrap
your head around...
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