[Sugar-devel] XO-1 keyboard issues, partial setxkbmap workaround

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 25 2009, Peter Robinson said:
>> > I'm trying to implement a very basic python module for handling XKB
>> > stuff. It is based on libxklavier[1], and can currently show the
>> > layouts available, as well as the variants for each layout. I will put
>> > this into Git as soon as I have figured out how to set the XKB
>> > configuration as well.
>> > libxklavier is Gobject based, but the standard PyGobject wrapping
>> > stuff (h2def, etc) did not work for me, so I decided to do a
>> > simplified module instead, which should take care of all our
>> > requirements for the time being.
>>
>> Fedora has a package called system-config-keyboard which is written in
>> python. Not sure if that can be of help to you.
>
> >From someone who's had way too much to do with system-config-keyboard,

Ah yes, it seems to use the hardcoded list inside rhpl

> I'd say it's not helpful and would warn against it.  That said, it is
> worth looking at the gnome control-center keyboard stuff -- while C
> based instead of python, it's likely along a similar line of what's
> trying to be done.  And sharing is better than reinventing the wheel.
> Plus, that could then help with the future idea of anaconda switching to
> something like that :-)
>

Precisely :-). I am in fact using libxklavier (which is the base XKB
manipulation lib used by the GNOME capplet and panel applet) to
implement this Python module.

Thanks,
Sayamindu

> Jeremy
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