Bug#274457: Please test new ca, ch, hu, jp, mn and vn layouts for PC models
Denis Barbier wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:06:28PM -0400, Christian Hudon wrote: I tried the Canadian French layout, and everything seems to work correctly. Among other things, the AltGr key (aka ISO_Level3_Shift) is finally at the right place. One small nit would be to change the shorthand string (that is used by the gnome keyboard applet, etc. to indicate the current keyboard) from "ca" to something a bit more descriptive (like "fr_ca") for the French Canadian keyboard layout. I tested gnome-keyboard-properties and under the Canadian menu, there are four variants: French, French (legacy), Multilingual and Multilingual 2nd part. Where is "ca" displayed? I do not know GNOME, do not hesitate to send lengthy explanations ;) First this is under Gnome 2.6 or 2.8. Earlier versions used a different applet for the keyboard switching. Not sure how to make a lenghty explanation of it, though. When you add the keyboard switching applet on a panel, it displays (on the panel) a letter code to indicate the current keyboard. For the US English keyboard it's "us". For the Spanish keyboard it's "es". And for the French Canadian keyboard it's (right now) "ca". Don't hesitate to ask again if the explanation is not long enough. :-) Christian
Bug#274457: Please test new ca, ch, hu, jp, mn and vn layouts for PC models
Denis Barbier wrote: Hi, you filed bugreports for not being able to select multiple layouts. Could you please get new XKB files from http://people.debian.org/~barbier/xkb/xkb-4.3.0.dfsg.1-8+SVN.tar.bz2 and test your desired layouts? These layouts can be loaded without problems, but as I am not familiar with them, it is pretty hard to check that everything works fine. Since we are releasing soon, your feedback is very important to quickly solve problems if needed (or to know that it works ;)). I tried the Canadian French layout, and everything seems to work correctly. Among other things, the AltGr key (aka ISO_Level3_Shift) is finally at the right place. One small nit would be to change the shorthand string (that is used by the gnome keyboard applet, etc. to indicate the current keyboard) from "ca" to something a bit more descriptive (like "fr_ca") for the French Canadian keyboard layout. Hopefully these new keyboard layouts can be folded into a last X release for testing. Otherwise having a defective layout makes use of programs running under X pretty hard. Thanks! Christian
Bug#274457: ISO_Level3_Shift for ca keyboard layout should be on RALT, not RCTL
Package: xlibs Version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 The ISO_Level3_Shift defined in the ca keyboard layout (and the ca_enhanced one, because it is based on ca) is mapped to the RCTL key. I'm not sure about the ca layout, but for the ca_enhanced layout (which I use every day), it is definitely *wrong*. On every ca_enhanced keyboard I've ever seen, this key is always on the RALT. Could you please move ISO_Level3_Shift over to where it is in every ca_enhanced keyboard, and on every other OS (well, Windows) I've ever run... Thanks, Christian
