Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com>, 2011-11-10 20:12 (+0100): > Different keycaps means a different product SKU, at least. If they use > the same USB product ID
Yes. I think this is a quite common scenario. > FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be > willing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks > would appreciate the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY > keyboard layout means French, that JIS means Japanese, that QWERTZ > probably indicates German / Swiss / Hungarian, etc. Certainly. > To my mind, though, that's a fallback for when you have a KVM or a > PS/2-to-USB converter or suchlike in the way that prevents the device > from being correctly recognized. Or when you have, say, a keyboard that physically is an ANSI keyboard (one less physical key compared to ISO keyboards) but still want, say, a Swedish keymap or, indeed, your very own keymap, unlike any other. Like me when I'm using one of my Happy Hacking Keyboards. Topre switches FTW! -- http://hack.org/mc/ Plain text e-mails, please. HTML messages sent to me are silently deleted. OpenPGP welcome, 0xE4C92FA5. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
