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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Romanian keyboard layout
From:       Cristian Tibirna <tibirna () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-10-22 16:58:22
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On Monday 22 October 2001 12:25, Ellis Whitehead wrote:
> A user wrote asking about getting the Romanian keyboard layout to work with
> the keyboard applet.  Is there such thing as including a layout with KDE,
> or is it an X-thing we don't have much to do with?

I was planning to take care of this user (Carsten already forwarded his 
message to me). I see he found the solution by himself in the meanwhile. I 
also resubscribe to kde-devel. Appologizes ... :-)

Adding a new layout is for the moment an X thing. No way to distribute it with 
KDE and have it automatically included (unless distributions would like to 
take care of such a mess). The solution will be to enhance kxkb to bring it 
to the level of the old kikbd. I believe the XKB lib (API) lets a programmer 
to play with layout representations. Anyways, for the moment, layout file has 
to be distributed by X11 distro and it has to be properly included in the 
rules files.

CT

>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: Re: additional keyboard layouts for KDE Keyboard applet
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:18:08 +0200
> From: Adrian Petru Dimulescu <dimulescu@yahoo.com>
> To: Ellis Whitehead <kde@ellisw.net>
>
> Thank you very much, however, I found the answer meanwhile: kxkb looks for
> "registered" layouts, that is to say, xkb layout files which are listed in
> the /usr/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86-it.lst file. So I simply added my layout
> to this file...
>
> I would like to make the file get into a standard KDE distribution. If you
> want I could send the file to you or to whomever is on charge with new
> layouts.
>
> Thanks again,
> Adrian.
>
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I use the keyboard applet in KDE 2.2 and I find it very useful as I
> > > type in several languages (english, french, romanian).
> > >
> > > However the Romanian layout is not the standard one (with diacritics
> > > marked onto special keys). I have made a xkb file called 'ro-std' which
> > > I have deployed into /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols and I load it with
> > >
> > > $ setxkbmap ro-std
> > >
> > > and I am very happy.
> > >
> > > But I would be even happier to have the applet do this for me... So how
> > > do I add a keyboard layout file, how do I customize it?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Adrian.

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