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bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) |
Subject: |
bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 19:50:02 +0200 |
On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 07:12:34PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Now it would be nice to support multiple keyboard layout selection from
> the installer, so that a configuration like to one above is generated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
Ludo responded to the other bug:
On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 11:49:09AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ideally we’d also offer a way to choose multiple layouts in the
> installer, so that one can end up with:
>
> (keyboard-layout "ar,us" #:options '("grp:alt_shift_toggle"))
>
I believe the user should not have to manually select the other layout
(if the user wants they can select via F1 key). Instead there should
be a sane default (typically U.S. layout). But since I am used to
Latin script, I may not have good judgment.
IMHO two things should be done:
* Within the installer, a toggleable second keyboard layout should be
available by default.
Mathieu enabled changing the layout via the F1 help menu. This is
good and more flexible and discoverable, but a key combination is
more convenient and people appear to be used to Alt+Shift toggling.
* In the config.scm created by the installer, the default
keyboard-layout should include the second layout.
Both the config.scm default and the installer layout should be the
same, I think.
I attach a proposed solution for the first thing, though it does not
yet update the toggle option correctly. If you think the
approach is OK, then I will add more default alternative layouts to
the maybe-add-second-layout procedure.
> Although that’s mostly useful for the console as GDM and GNOME should be
> able to do the right thing.
>
> Anyway, we can discuss it in a separate issue.
>
> Ludo’.
The GNOME session after login will ask the user what keyboard layout
they want, but the (I believe changeable) default for GDM comes
from config.scm.
Regards,
Florian
0001-installer-Allow-Alt-Shift-toggle-from-non-Latin-keyb.patch
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- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, Mathieu Othacehe, 2020/04/07
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts,
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <=
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/04/07
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/04/07
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/04/08
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/04/08
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/04/09
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/04/09
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, Mathieu Othacehe, 2020/04/09
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/04/09
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/04/09
- bug#40493: installer: Provide a way to select multiple keyboard layouts, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/04/09