From: Alexey Gladkov <legion@altlinux.ru> To: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Cc: Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us>, vcrhonek@fedoraproject.org, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org>, Walter Bender <walter.bender@gmail.com>, kbd <kbd@lists.altlinux.org> Subject: Re: [kbd] OLPC specific keymaps Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:35:24 +0300 Message-ID: <4785CABC.70703@altlinux.ru> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20080110002539.GA32184@mette> Andries E. Brouwer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:38:30PM -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: >> Hello, >> >> the OLPC comes with a physical keyboard layout which is >> slightly different from the traditional PC. >> >> We also have a number of tweaks and additions on our >> international keyboard maps. This is all taken care of in the >> xkb keyboards. >> >> So far, we did not bother too much about updating the console >> keymaps, because this is not what the children would be using >> daily. However, some maps need massaging even to get common >> ASCII punctuation ('`~/) right. >> >> I'm attaching two modified maps we modified as an example. Please, send me example too. :) >> >> Now I'm wondering how we could integrate such changes upstream. >> Shall we create an olpc directory at the same level of i386 or >> at the level of qwerty? >> >> Fedora specific: shall we branch this package for olpc? >> I'd be willing to merge my changes in devel if the current >> maintainer agrees on it. >> >> -- >> \___/ >> |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ >> \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ > > The kbd package was taken over by Alexey Gladkov <legion@altlinux.ru>. I'm adding kbd maillist on Cc. Maybe we will discuss it there ? > > If I conjecture that you use a more or less standard Linux kernel > for the OLPC, and use PC-compatible hardware, then maybe your keyboard > belongs under i386. > > (I would like to play with one - is it already possible for someone > in Europe to buy them?) > > Andries > > -- Rgrds, legion
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-10 7:35 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2008-01-10 7:35 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message] 2008-01-10 13:03 ` Bernardo Innocenti 2008-01-11 23:50 ` Alexey Gladkov
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