[OLPC-DE] Fwd: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards

[Bert Freudenberg]

Hatte nicht jemand an einer deutschen Tastaturbeschriftung gearbeitet?

- Bert -

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> From: "Zarro Boogs per Child" <bugtracker at laptop.org>
> Date: 29. Mai 2008 03:45:11 MESZ
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> Subject: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs  
> appropriate keyboards
> Reply-To: devel at laptop.org, devel at lists.laptop.org
>
> #7116: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards
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> +----------------------------------------------------
> Reporter:  gnu        |       Owner:  walter
>     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new
> Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
> Component:  keyboards  |     Version:  Update.1
> Keywords:  europe     |    Verified:  0
> Blocking:             |   Blockedby:
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> +----------------------------------------------------
> On 19 May, OLPC president Chuck Kane said that an early summer G1G1
> program in Europe is possible.  Adam Holt suggested on 28 May that we
> start off by assuming "totally arbitrarily" that the 4 most populous  
> EU
> countries would be included (DE, UK, FR, IT).
>
> If those four countries are included, OLPC will need keyboard  
> layouts for
> each such country (or a decision that we'd make a "unified European
> keyboard" or use the "US International keyboard" or something like  
> that).
>
> It would also be smart to assume that the US and Canada would be  
> included
> (thus Canadian and French Canadian keyboard bugs should be fixed).  In
> addition, since we are supporting several Spanish speaking countries,
> Spain ifself should be included.
>
> This is a collector bug for information about:
>
>   *  What keyboards are needed
>   *  Status of the work to create and support them
>
> Apparently, up to four places need updating to make a keyboard:
>
>   *  The printed silkscreen on the keys
>   *  The KA tag in the manufacturing info, used by OFW
>   *  The console keymap (kbd package)
>   *  The X Window System keymap (xkeyboard-config package)
>
> My initial survey of existing tickets showed these relevant tickets:
>
>  * #6633 - Updated xkeyboard-config package for fr and it layouts
>  * #6102 - French/Canada Localization not complete
>  * #5841 - es.map is broken for XO keyboards
>  * #3565 - Urdu, French, and Cyrillic Laptops don't go into their  
> language
>
> In addition, these tickets are relevant if we're going to have lots of
> customers customizing their keymaps (e.g. as they move around Europe):
>
>  * #3912 - X11 should get keep its keyboard layout across upgrades.
>  * #4121 - Implement proper extensible keyboard description system.
>  * #6942 - changing keyboard layout requires editing a text file as  
> root
>
> We do not currently appear to have any keyboard layouts for DE or UK.
>
> See:  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Keyboard
>
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