Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-11-17 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Bernardo I do not see the part regarding the input methods up there. I think there should be 2 parts: one for GTK IM (probably void, since it is enabled by default with the locale), another for XIM - modifying xorg.conf (or using setxkbmap) and setting GTK_IM_MODULE/QT_IM_MODULE. What do you think

Update Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-10-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Hello, as most of the prerequisites landed in joyride, I have updated the installation instructions for testing the Ethiopian localization and the Amharic input method. The procedure is now greatly simplified: https://www.codewiz.org/~bernie/wiki/EthiopianLocale The todo list is also shorter:

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-14 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Yes, I see your point here. You are right. I was did not notice it was olpc2 variant. Sergey > That's the way I understood the issue. Does it sound > reasonable? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 09/13/2007 07:35 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: >> Oh... yes... for the us layout, I think you need to say >> "us(olpc2)" because otherwise you get the plain >> multiply/divide mapping by default (switching is still >> available through alt, I think). > I think we were going to have a rule: if layou

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
> Oh... yes... for the us layout, I think you need to say > "us(olpc2)" because otherwise you get the plain > multiply/divide mapping by default (switching is still > available through alt, I think). I think we were going to have a rule: if layout is 'us' and model 'olpc', it should use symbols 'us

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 09/13/2007 07:04 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: >> Yes, it's the rightmost key below enter. I updated >> the documentation. > Do you need to use some xkb option for the switching key to work? Are > you 100% it works by default, without XkbOption in xorg.conf (or > -option parameter for setxkbmap)?

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
> Yes, it's the rightmost key below enter. I updated > the documentation. Do you need to use some xkb option for the switching key to work? Are you 100% it works by default, without XkbOption in xorg.conf (or -option parameter for setxkbmap)? I took freedom to fix a couple of words in the wiki, i

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 09/13/2007 06:42 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > Do you mean "group switch"? I have no idea what is the standard key > for it on XO. Yes, it's the rightmost key below enter. I updated the documentation. > > Sergey > > On 9/13/07, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 09/13/2007 0

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Do you mean "group switch"? I have no idea what is the standard key for it on XO. Sergey On 9/13/07, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/13/2007 06:34 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > > >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup > > Looks ok. Would it make sense to have layout '

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 09/13/2007 06:34 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup > Looks ok. Would it make sense to have layout 'us,et' instead of just > 'et'? It is an important matter - whether Ethiopian kids should be > able to input latin/English texts. Oh, yes... the mode switch

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
> I thought XIM was already the default IM used by GTK. No, IIRC for Ethiopean locale GTK is using Ethiopian IM module by default (unless you specify GTK_IM_MODULE=xim) > For the xorg.conf part, should be fixed. Please, > have a look: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup Looks ok. Woul

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 09/13/2007 04:17 AM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > Bernardo > > I do not see the part regarding the input methods up there. I think > there should be 2 parts: one for GTK IM (probably void, since it is > enabled by default with the locale), another for XIM - modifying > xorg.conf (or using setxkbmap

Re: Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-13 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> I do not see the part regarding the input methods up there. I think > there should be 2 parts: one for GTK IM (probably void, since it is > enabled by default with the locale), another for XIM - modifying > xorg.conf (or using setxkbmap) and setting GTK_IM_MODULE/QT_IM_MODULE. > What do you thin

Ethiopian installation instructions

2007-09-12 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
mako suggested me to document a procedure for installing Ethiopic support on laptops: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup You may find the installation steps a bit convoluted, but, what the hell, if it was that easy we'd have it in the builds already :-) Of course, feel free to enhance th