Bug 1117891

Summary: Change Finnish xkb-converted layout
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component: kbdAssignee: Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: kbd-2.0.2-5.fc22 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-10-06 14:02:39 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Marko Myllynen 2014-07-09 15:21:14 UTC 
Description of problem:
Currently the default fi layout which gets loaded with loadkeys(1) is based on the default Finnish X keyboard layout which is not optimal for most console users (who are administrators and power users) who expect not to get an unexpected no-break space when typing fast and hitting space with altgr still pressed and also sometimes need to be able to type <,|, and > on (virtual) keyboards missing the key (this is not possible with the default Finnish X keyboard).

Please either convert the fi layout from the fi(classic) variant (see http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/tree/symbols/fi) or use the legacy/i386/qwerty/fi.map instead which is identical with fi(classic) in the latest upstream versions of xkeyboard-config/kbd. Since the latter does not need any conversion and can be used as-is from kbd, perhaps it might be better option than to convert from fi(classic) but either of them would be better than the current situation.

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kbd-2.0.2
Comment 1 Marko Myllynen 2014-10-02 14:14:04 UTC 
Created attachment 943385 [details]
fine tune fi layouts
Comment 2 Marko Myllynen 2014-10-02 14:15:14 UTC 
Thanks for looking into this. I now checked F21 and the default fi layout is now optimal for most console users. However, we might want to keep the X default fi layout also around just in case, I attached a patch proposal to do that.

Thanks.
Comment 3 Vitezslav Crhonek 2014-10-06 14:02:39 UTC 
Thanks, fixed in Rawhide.