Python and XKB [WAS: Re: [Sugar-devel] XO-1 keyboard issues, partial setxkbmap workaround]
Hello,
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Martin Dengler
<martin(a)martindengler.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:23:39AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Martin Dengler
> <martin(a)martindengler.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 04:26:17AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> >> [olpc set /etc/sysconfig/keyboard from OFW's data and had no UI for
> >> keyboard configuration]
> >
> > We could just get rid of the keyboard configure GUI and have people
> > edit the file still (and automatically maintain it as you suggest).
> > The range of choices available in the config file is huge, and I'm not
> > sure what it really adds to give people a very limited UI.
> >
>
> But that will work only on the XO :-).
Define "work" :). Editing a file works everywhere. Editing a file
that's maintained by the distribution (SoaS) works everywhere in that
distro.
Oops - sorry, I missed out the "people editing the file part" :-). (I
should really go to sleep early on some days)
I have just pushed an initial edition of pyxkb to Git:
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/python-xkb
It works for me (though it may crash if you don't use it under ideal
circumstances).
Some examples:
#Get a list of all the layouts
pyxkb.get_layouts()
#Get a list of all variant for the 'us' layout:
pyxkb.get_variants_for_layout('us')
#Get the enabled layouts:
pyxkb.get_current_layouts()
#Enable 'us(olpc2)' and 'af(olpc-ps)' layout:
pyxkb.set_layouts(['us', 'es'])
pyxkb.set_variants(['olpc2', 'olpc-ps'])
I think the above should be sufficient to implement a basic keyboard
configuration control panel extension for Sugar.
Thanks,
Sayamindu
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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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