ru-yawerty keyboard map has been available in console for a long time. It also present in text mode install menu selection. the time to make it in X is long due. Does Xconfigurator copy appropriate keyboard map from console mode to X mode? The /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ru-yawerty is attached. File made from /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ru-yawerty.kmap.gz by Leon Kanter <leon.ua>
Created attachment 12705 [details] ru-yawerty X keyboard map
This request is both extremely important and extremely easy to implement. Yes, it is kind of late in the release cycle. But 4.0.3 packages have just been made. It was a good opportunity to include this file!! I am not talking about modifiying Xconfigurator.....
Reopening an RFE that has been deferred is NOT a good way to get the request implemented. When I mark something as DEFERRED, it means that I consider the request worthy of looking into, and higher priority than others that are not dealt with yet. We are deep into development cycle right now, and this change _WILL_NOT_ get implemented right now as it is NOT a critical bug fix. It is not a matter of how simple it is to implement, it is a matter of how much time I have to spend on XFree86 bugs right now. Enhancments are at the bottom of my priority list. 5 minutes spent on this, is 5 minutes not spent working on fixing a driver so that 10000 people can use some video card that doesn't have a working driver. I had kept it defered for future consideration as I do not see anything wrong with your request, however changing the status of my decision in order to try and force the change to happen sooner rather than later is more likely to have it not happen at all. Have you requested this change to the XFree86 team at fixes? If not, please do so, and state that you'd like it applied to the 4.0.2 branch as well as the trunk. This is the fastest way to get it into the core XFree86 code right now.
Created attachment 22548 [details] new symbols/ru-yawerty. previous one have missed symbols.
What is the current status of this? Please take a look if you have time.
The status is "not done yet". When it is done, I will close the bug report. No need to ask for status updates.
I have decided that this sort of change is something that should be requested directly upstream to XFree86. We want to stay as close to XFree86's codebase as possible. Also, the rest of the community deserves to benefit from such enhancements as well. Please submit your request for ru-yawerty keyboard mapping support directly to XFree86 via email to the fixes address. This is the fastest way to get any such submissions into XFree86 proper.