Bug 79471
Summary: | Can not load french keyboard layout anymore | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot> | ||||
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 1.0 | ||||||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:50:18 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Nicolas Mailhot
2002-12-11 23:38:41 UTC
Created attachment 88488 [details]
SRPM of fr-latin9 X layout
>The tldp francophones-howto (aka french-howto) has therefore distributed for a
>very long time its own "official" keyboard layout. And I got so tired of
>installing by hand on each new RH install/waiting for it to get merged I even
>packaged it in an rpm (guess XFree86 dropped the layout when it was submitted by
>its author and i18n-friendly distros are all too happy to let us-centric ones
>ship broken setups to push it into XFree86 proper).
The xkb files that are shipped in Red Hat Linux, are the ones supplied
by XFree86.org. If those files are broken, it is because they people
who use the particular keyboard mapping and may or may not have fixed
it, have not submitted bug fixes to XFree86.org for their keyboard
layout.
I will not accept new keyboard layouts for submission into Red Hat Linux
at all period. If I were to do that, then I am stuck maintaining that
layout indefinitely. Any keyboard layout submissions absolutely _must_
be submitted to fixes, as this is an XFree86.org problem
and not one central to Red Hat Linux. Then, and only then, will such
keyboard layouts be accepted into Red Hat Linux.
If XFree86.org refuses this layout, then it is not something that Red Hat
is willing to ship either. If there are problems with the map that need
to be fixed before it is applied to XFree86.org sources, then the author
of the layout, or the body of people supporting the layout need to get
together on xpert and discuss whatever problems there are
with the XFree86 developers, and fix them until XFree86.org accepts the
layout into the official XFree86 distribution.
Sorry, but we simply do not have the engineering manpower to
continuously patch in people's various keyboard mapping enhancements,
and then fix and repatch those patches indefinitely as the official
XFree86 files upstream change over time. This is something that needs
to be taken care of between the original author(s) and XFree86.org
directly.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64912 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |