From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on sa.int.altlinux.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Message-ID: <4785CABC.70703@altlinux.ru> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:35:24 +0300 From: Alexey Gladkov Organization: ALT Linux User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070803 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andries E. Brouwer" References: <47854CE6.1040501@codewiz.org> <20080110002539.GA32184@mette> In-Reply-To: <20080110002539.GA32184@mette> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dennis Gilmore , vcrhonek@fedoraproject.org, Bernardo Innocenti , Walter Bender , kbd Subject: Re: [kbd] OLPC specific keymaps X-BeenThere: kbd@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: Linux console tools development discussion List-Id: Linux console tools development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:35:37 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: 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 . 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