Bug 7519

Summary:	Missing Apple keyboard on Mageia install
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Michael Girard <michael.girard>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Marja Van Waes <marja11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, michael.girard, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-kbd-mouse-x11	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Michael Girard 2012-09-18 19:07:52 CEST

Description of problem: In the beginning of Mageia install, when I want to choose my type of keyboard, Apple keyboards is missing. Just a tiny feature, but very useful for Mac users.


How reproducible: Installing Mageia (second or third step from the beginning)



PS: If you don't understand what I mean because of my english, just tell me and I will post screenshots.


Regards,

Michael

Michael Girard 2012-09-18 19:21:25 CEST

CC: (none) => michael.girard

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-09-21 00:24:02 CEST

(setting to cauldron as it's an enhancement request)

also you have more option in drakkeyboard

CC: sysadmin-bugs => (none)
Component: Release (media or process) => Installer
Version: 2 => Cauldron

Comment 2 Michael Girard 2012-09-21 09:28:22 CEST

(In reply to comment #1)
> (setting to cauldron as it's an enhancement request)
> 
> also you have more option in drakkeyboard


Yes, that's what I did when Mageia was installed. But it's quite disturbing when you're installing Mageia and you have to define a password and so on...

Do I have to change the ticket status as RESOLVED or something like this ? (it's my first ticket)


Anyway, many thanks Manuel.



Michael

Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-11 10:56:12 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-kbd-mouse-x11

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-17 12:43:28 CEST

@Marja: want to land one more keyboard layout in keyboarddrake :-) ?

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2016-06-17 17:05:42 CEST

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #3)
> @Marja: want to land one more keyboard layout in keyboarddrake :-) ?

Sure, but I fail to see how another layout can solve this problem :-/

If I understand correctly what Michael wrote, then not being able to select an Apple keyboard _type_ in installer is the problem:

(In reply to Michael Girard from comment #0)
> Description of problem: In the beginning of Mageia install, when I want to
> choose my type of keyboard, Apple keyboards is missing. 

(In reply to Michael Girard from comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > (setting to cauldron as it's an enhancement request)
> > 
> > also you have more option in drakkeyboard
> 
> 
> Yes, that's what I did when Mageia was installed. 

The selectKeyboard step in installer does indeed not provide an option to select Keyboard type:
http://doc.mageia.org/installer/5/en/content/images/dx2-selectKeyboard.png

However, Keyboarddrake does have that option in the bottom half of the screen:
http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/images/keyboarddrake.png

@ Michael

Did I correctly understand you? 

@ Thierry

I do currently fail to see, from
  /drakx/perl-install/install/steps_interactive.pm
  sub selectKeyboard
from
  /drakx/perl-install/install/detect_devices.pm
and from 
  /drakx-kbd-mouse-x11/lib/keyboard.pm
how installer detects and sets the keyboard type.

(But I didn't yet look at the other pm files that are used and I should learn Perl :-/ )

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-17 17:35:04 CEST

Thx, I forgot that this isn't the same screen as in keyboarddrake.
In installer, we first try get a small list matching the locale, using keyboard::lang2keyboards()
If that fails, we displays the full list that we got from keyboard::KEYBOARDs().

We also displays this full list with the "More" button if we have a small list.

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2016-06-17 20:05:38 CEST

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #5)
> Thx, I forgot that this isn't the same screen as in keyboarddrake.
> In installer, we first try get a small list matching the locale, using
> keyboard::lang2keyboards()
> If that fails, we displays the full list that we got from
> keyboard::KEYBOARDs().
> 
> We also displays this full list with the "More" button if we have a small
> list.

I wrongly assumed that the the kbd keyboard names would be the same for mac keyboards, only the paths different, but there's e.g.
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz
and
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/mac/all/mac-us.map.gz

"mac-us", so the name already tells it's an Apple.

And for xkb it already wasn't a problem.

I'll add the keyboard this weekend.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Assignee: bugsquad => marja11

Comment 7 Mageia Robot 2016-06-19 12:06:19 CEST

commit 692e43c54cfebca5dc2929ab5fa657ae8c2a3317
Author: Marja van Waes <marja@...>
Date:   Sun Jun 19 12:04:04 2016 +0200

    add US Apple keyboard (mga#7519)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx-kbd-mouse-x11/commit/?id=692e43c54cfebca5dc2929ab5fa657ae8c2a3317

Comment 8 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-27 12:03:20 CEST

Resolved in git

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

Comment 9 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-27 12:03:43 CEST

And in current Cauldron installer

Comment 10 Marja Van Waes 2016-06-27 13:44:56 CEST

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #8)
> Resolved in git

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #9)
> And in current Cauldron installer

Tbh, i had left this report open, because the fix hasn't been tested.

Of my contributions to Mageia, this is the one that i had (and have) most doubts about.

@ Michael Girard

Would you be able to test the fix with a network install, or with a 6sta1 traditional install once the 6sta1 isos are released?

Once the fix is confirmed to work, I'll update the .pot and .po files for the translators.