Bug 3791

Summary:	keyboard layout selection for German should default to the "German" variant with enabled deadkeys, not the "nodeadkeys variant"
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	alien, marja11, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-kbd-mouse-x11	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	does this patch works?

Description Christian Lohmaier 2011-12-16 23:25:01 CET

This is inherited from Mandriva, but this is one of the decision/defaults I did never understand and had to change whenever I installed Mandriva for family & friends.

Only programmers would prefer a nodeadkeys layout (or know what deadkeys are to begin with), the casual user just expects the keyboard to behave like it does on Windows or Mac. 

For this reason, the default for German should be the plain varian with enabled deadkeys, and not the nodeadkeys version.

Manuel Hiebel 2011-12-17 14:00:39 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-31 22:08:58 CET

assigning to maintainer

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 2 Christian Lohmaier 2012-05-06 21:56:37 CEST

still applies to beta3 live iso. Annoying..

Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-06 23:28:56 CEST

Component: Installer => RPM Packages
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => bugsquad
Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => drakx-kbd-mouse-x11

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-06 23:29:58 CEST

Created attachment 2203 [details]
does this patch works?

(to apply in /usr/lib/libDrakX)

Marja Van Waes 2012-05-07 07:19:36 CEST

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 4 Christian Lohmaier 2012-05-07 13:17:36 CEST

If I understand the list correctly, it is

locale => keyboardvariant:weight keyboardvariant2:weight2

Although it is unclear to me at first sight where the weight is used (if at all)

In any case - your patch lists "de" twice with different weights, but should just swap de with de_nodeadkeys:

-  'de'  => 'de_nodeadkeys:70 de:50 be:50 ch_de:50',
+  'de'  => 'de:70 de_nodeadkeys:50 be:50 ch_de:50',

Not sure whether the "needmoreinfo" was meant for me, the reporter - assuming so and removing it.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-07 14:30:16 CEST

Did you test keyboarddrake with that change applied?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 6 Christian Lohmaier 2012-05-08 14:05:34 CEST

Yes - boot to live-iso and wait a little at the language selection prompt for the vts to be setup. Switch to vt2, login as root, change keyboard.pm, switch back to language selection, accept licenseã& choose timezone, then on the keyboard-layout selection dialog the deadkeys variant is preselected, accept, boot into gnome â keyboard works as expected.

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-09 10:25:26 CEST

Thanks for the testing.
Fixed in GIT

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 8 AL13N 2012-05-09 23:54:25 CEST

is this similar to bug #3316 ?

CC: (none) => alien

Comment 9 Christian Lohmaier 2012-05-17 19:47:10 CEST

not sure why Thierry added back the NEEDMOREINFO keyword without actually asking for more info - assuming a mistake and removing it again.

and answering to AL13N: No, this is not similar to bug#3316 - it is only about the initial selection done when installing Mageia.
Only if the non-graphical terminals would have the wrong layout, then there might be something wrong with the keyboard-setup. If it is only KDE, then it is KDE that overrides the keyboard/uses an input method that conflicts with the default layout.
(I for example use engish and german keyboard layouts that I configured using Gnome's keyboard settings, and additionally ibus with anthy.)

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)