No support for for Mac-like keyboard layouts with extra characters

[Artem Popov]

Reporter requires a keyboard layout with extra characters similar to the Mac OS X keyboard layout which uses the option key heavily to allow for better typography. The Mac layout contains a proper ellipsis character (option+semicolon), single and double, left and right (duh!) curly quotes, mapped to option+[, option+shift+[, option+], and option+shift+]. It also contains summation, copyright, several diphthongs, infinity, international currency, paragraph, and degree symbols, for example.

Further information:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=418941

TEST CASE: Set your keyboard layout to the Mac one and try the above combinations.

[Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel-gimpelevich)]

Created an attachment (id=17588)
de-unicode-ified version

[Sergey V. Udaltsov (svu)]

Thanks, committed!

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Reporter requires a keyboard layout with extra characters similar to the Mac OS X keyboard layout which uses the option key heavily to allow for better typography. The Mac layout contains a proper ellipsis character (option+semicolon), single and double, left and right (duh!) curly quotes, mapped to option+[, option+shift+[, option+], and option+shift+]. It also contains summation, copyright, several diphthongs, infinity, international currency, paragraph, and degree symbols, for example.

Further information:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=418941

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

A fix, provided by Daniel Gimpelevich, is available upstream. The attached debdiff applies the fix for the Ubuntu package as well.

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

diffstat output:

 debian/patches/us-mac.diff | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 xkeyboard-config-1.3/debian/changelog | 8 +++
 xkeyboard-config-1.3/debian/patches/series | 1
 3 files changed, 81 insertions(+)

[Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel-gimpelevich)]

The upstream patch I made applies cleanly to Hardy, also. Please add it there, too, for hardy-updates.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Артём: thanks for the debdiff (pushed to intrepid, should be in alpha 2); are you interested to care for the hardy SRU? Could you please attach a debdiff for this SRU?

Thanks,

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Of course, here's a debdiff for the Hardy package.

 debian/patches/us-mac.diff | 72 ++++++++++++++
 xkeyboard-config-1.1~cvs.20080104.1/debian/changelog | 8 +
 xkeyboard-config-1.1~cvs.20080104.1/debian/patches/series | 1
 3 files changed, 81 insertions(+)

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Reuploading debdiff, as the former had an invalid distro in the changelog.

[Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel-gimpelevich)]

It's still not in -proposed yet.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I've pushed the proposed debdiff but targetted at hardy-proposed, not hardy. NB: I didn't change the version as it was free.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Any tester?

[Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel-gimpelevich)]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 11:44 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Any tester?

Works for me, but that hardly counts.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Daniel Gimpelevich [2008-09-12 12:07 -0000]:
> Works for me, but that hardly counts.

It does! Thanks for your feedback. Now I'm waiting for some other
testers which check this package on a mor 'regular' PC keyboard to see
whether anything changed for them.

[Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel-gimpelevich)]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 13:43 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Daniel Gimpelevich [2008-09-12 12:07 -0000]:
> > Works for me, but that hardly counts.
>
> It does! Thanks for your feedback. Now I'm waiting for some other
> testers which check this package on a mor 'regular' PC keyboard to see
> whether anything changed for them.

Yeah, I guess the HP laptop I'm using it on isn't 'regular' enough…

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is already applied in intrepid.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Tested by Артём and Daniel, and since it only affects the mac layout, this isn't very intrusive, so I consider this tested. We did not get any other negative feedback about it.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates.