Summary: | New keyboard map for Finnish | ||
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Product: | xkeyboard-config | Reporter: | Troy Korjuslommi <tjk> |
Component: | General | Assignee: | xkb |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | high | Keywords: | i18n |
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
OS: | Linux (All) | ||
URL: | http://kotoistus.tksoft.com/linux/index-en.html | ||
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i915 platform: | i915 features: |
Description
Troy Korjuslommi
2006-05-13 03:57:05 UTC
I am generally happy to include your variant. Just a couple of questions: 1. Is this variant used by many people? 2. Could it be better described as "include fi(basic)" + smth? It seems it is not completely different... This is the new keyboard layout which should replace the old one. Kotoistus is a project under the Finnish Ministry of Education, and was given the task of designing the new layout. Microsoft had a repsentative in the design process, and they will be including this layout in Vista. We used an approach of not messing with any key positions on the current keyboard, which is why you will see many similarities with the old one. I tried using an include, but it created a problem because we also have some letters which should not produce anything. I don't see a problem in adding some other letters in those positions, but I would prefer that those additions be added as a separate definition, which would then be included after this one, so users who want a keyboard layout which follows our settings strictly, are able to select it. Those users who want some other letters in the empty positions can then be given another layout option which includes this file and then the other file (e.g a superset with copyright and cent symbols). Please note that users now have the compose key for producing rare letters. The Sami language has its own keyboard layout, which is specified in the symbol file. That should be left alone. I don't know the details behind the nodeadkeys layout, so I cannot comment on that. (I am looking at the pc/fi file from the Xorg 6.9.0 distribution.) Thanks Troy, your explanation makes perfect sense to me... I'll commit your variant. committed. |
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