Bug 96418

Summary:	Move indian layouts to extras
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	peter.hutterer
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	move-indian-layouts-to-extra-xml.patch move-indian-layouts-to-extra-xml.patch

Description Peter Hutterer 2016-06-07 06:07:58 UTC

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1337393

From the bug report:
"Apparently the Indian keyboard layouts in xkeyboard-config are not
very useful because of limitations in xkb. In xkb, it is not possible
to output several characters when one key is pressed but that seems
sometimes necessary.

For Indian languages, the input methods supplied by ibus-m17n appear
to be more useful, having the xkb keyboard layouts show up as well in
the gnome-control centre confuse the user because of too many useless
choices.

Therefore, Anish Patil suggested to hide these Indian keyboard layouts
in the gnome-control-centre.

The easiest way to hide them is to move them from
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml to
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.extras.xml because gnome-control-centre
does not list the layouts from base.extras.xml.

base.extras.xml seems to be for rarely used layouts, so these Indian
layouts seem to fet better there than in base.xml."

Sergey, what do you think?

Comment 1 Pravin 2016-06-07 07:21:22 UTC

We had some discussion on this earlier. Thread: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-January/206011.html

Comment 2 Mike FABIAN 2016-06-07 08:14:56 UTC

Created attachment 124382 [details] [review]
move-indian-layouts-to-extra-xml.patch

Patch to fix this problem.

(Against current master of git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xkeyboard-config).

Comment 3 anish 2016-06-10 05:04:33 UTC

Hi Mike,

Thank you for the patch, patch looks good.
Can we merge asap so that we can it have in F24 or F25?


Thanks
Anish Patil

Comment 4 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2016-09-15 21:19:45 UTC

Could you please update your patch against the current git? It does not apply.. Thank you

Comment 5 Peter Hutterer 2016-09-15 22:32:23 UTC

Created attachment 126564 [details] [review]
move-indian-layouts-to-extra-xml.patch

Updated to apply on top of d115cc3

Comment 6 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2016-09-19 23:47:55 UTC

Thank you, worked this time!

Comment 7 Daniel Stone 2017-06-21 09:10:04 UTC

FWIW, it is possible to produce multiple characters from one keysym for anyone using libxkbcommon (mostly Wayland). I don't think it's something we can ever realistically turn on in Xorg, but xkbcomp does at least ignore it whilst parsing, so shipping these files is an option:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xkbcomp/commit/?id=e119cbec7e750ffc4d4bd08b577db2c697035a30

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/blob/master/test/data/symbols/us#L12
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/blob/master/test/state.c#L616

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