Le ven 13/12/2002 à 03:35, David Dawes a écrit : > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:59:51PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >Le jeu 12/12/2002 à 13:54, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > >> (re-send after actually finishing subscribing to the list, sorry about this) > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> For years the fr keyboard in xfree86 was broken and painful to use (I > >> can elaborate a *lot* more if anyone's interested). It even sparked the > >> creation of a very complete howto detailling how anyone needing to work > >> in X everyday could replace it with a version that actually worked ( ie > >> the francophones-howto aka the french-howto) > >> > >> This layout was merged in kbd. > >> > >> Unfortunately it has also been broken by recent changes in xfree cvs > > > >In fact I fixed my setup by moving the layout definition from > >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc > > Can you point out an example or two of the differences between the two? > The symbols/pc version should be a version of the previous one that's > suitable for multi-layout use. > > >What would it take to get this layout merged ? > > The best way would be to provide it in a format that fits in with the > multi-layout symbols definitions in symbols/pc.
I posted a reworked layout at : http://mapage.noos.fr/nmailhot/fr-latin9-pc (the original layout is available at : http://mapage.noos.fr/nmailhot/fr-latin9) Basically I took the xfree fr layout and modified it till it matched the layout I wanted. While doing this I tweaked a bit the original fr-latin9 layout (matched euro and cent with fr, removed duplicate guillemots to add doublequotemarks). I didn't change much since this is a very well-thought design and there is little room for improvements. This layout do not depend on pc/latin ; in fact there is quite a bit of overlapping, but there is almost no key where all the four symbols match. So I dumped the latin include ; and I see no point of defining a new latin core that will be only used by this layout. All the original fr-latin9 part that defined <F1> <F2> and so on was dumped. When in doubt, I used the Xfree definitions (I let the original latin9 lines as comments, please tell me if I can remove them) I didn't include the french design comments on top of the file ; however since they are pretty good and users of this layout are expected to speak french I hope they can be included in the final version. It works as-is ; I declared it as an azerty but I really don't know if it matters. Please tell me if this is suitable for inclusion, so I'll only have to ask Guylhem to un-GPL it. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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