On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 11:31 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: > As it was suggested in the discussion here on the devel list, we could > use the systemd-localed DBus service [1] to set keyboard layouts. I've > looked at it and tried some tests and here are the results: > > 1.) The main problem is, that this service allows to set only one > keyboard layout and is therefore not usable for us for setting multiple > X11 keyboard layouts. Can you explain this a bit more (mostly for us poor ignorant keymap=us users)? Some questions: What do you mean by "multiple keyboard layouts"? Multiple keyboards, or keymap switching (using a hotkey or something)? Do people use this in anaconda? How do you switch keyboard layouts in a normal system? (iBus?) If normal systems use iBus for keymap switching, why can't we do that in anaconda? If this is a shortcoming of launchd, can we ask them about adding support for it? > 2.) While it has a method for setting the virtual console keyboard > layout too, it provides us the same functionality as loadkeys command. I > see no reason for replacing loadkeys calling with DBus method > invocations. Once rhbz#837292 [2] gets resolved it would allow us to use > more keyboard layouts in the console, but for now I don't see any reason > to use it. It would let us remove most of keyboard.py and use existing (and up-to-date!) system services instead - less code for us to maintain, and the DBus API is more likely to stay stable. I mean, that's the new game, right? Whoever removes the most code wins! (And you all have a lot of catching up to do.. :P) -w _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
