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I ran through the same thing back when I wrote my own operating system. Getting the keyboard to work properly was, in my opinion, the hardest part. Of course, I cheated and used Linux's memory management... I think some Russian keyboards do give out different signals, but don't quote me on that. > Subject: Re: Proposed release criteria additions for F14+ > From: awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx > To: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:58:29 -0700 > > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:44 -0400, James Laska wrote: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_login > > > > Perhaps demonstrating my familiarity with only keymap=us, but using a > > different keymap requires a different keyboard right? > > Not in fact, no. Try selecting a UK keymap and hit shift-3. =) This is a > quick and easy way to do this test if you only have a US keyboard - > select the UK keyboard map and create usernames and passwords with UK > currency symbols in 'em. Most other symbols are the same (though \, >, > @, " and | move about a bit...) > > (In fact the whole user-selected-keymap paradigm exists because > 'different keyboards' aren't really that different. They all send the > same physical signals, whatever's written on the keycaps. This is why > you have to manually pick the right keymap to make what gets printed on > screen match what's written on your keycaps. If there was actually some > identifiable electronic difference between differently-labelled > keyboards, we wouldn't have to ask the user to select a keymap at all, > we could just pick the appropriate one automatically. > > I recommend not digging too far down this rabbit hole, as you'll learn > all about wonderful things like the fact that there's actually three > layers here - keycodes, keysyms, and then what's eventually printed on > the screen - and X gets in the way too. And dead keys and the way some > international layouts need three, four or even five layers of > characters...I did some work on keymapping for an unofficial port of > Android to the HTC Touch Pro 2, which is even more entertaining because > Android doesn't work like X at all and has its own odd conventions for > converting keycodes to keysyms to characters. Whee!) > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. |
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