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(In reply to Sébastien Picavet from comment #0)

> Since KDE layout configuration is broken somewhere upstream (same issue with my
> Gentoo), I use Xorg option to have the right layout.

is there a Gentoo and/or Upstream bug report for that issue that you know of?



About the current problems:

I don't understand in which way your keyboard layout is broken now. Do you get "qwerty" when typing "azerty"?

Do you only have the current problem in Plasma5, or in other DEs as well? 

Does the keyboard currently work fine in SDDM (the login screen that's default for plasma)?

Does the keyboard currently work well when you switch to a VT, with e.g. "Ctrl Alt F3" and start typing there?

Does adjusting the layout with keyboarddrake work?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Assignee: bugsquad => kde
Summary: Keyboard layout does not comply with xorg.conf.d/* => Plasma's keyboard layout config tool does not comply with xorg.conf.d/*
CC: (none) => marja11

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #6)
> (In reply to Sébastien Picavet from comment #0)
> 
> > Since KDE layout configuration is broken somewhere upstream (same issue with my
> > Gentoo), I use Xorg option to have the right layout.
> 
> is there a Gentoo and/or Upstream bug report for that issue that you know of?

Not on Gentoo. On KDE Plasma 5.8.* (cauldron and Gentoo = 5.8.5), I found some bug reports. They are a bit different, but lead to the same issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370734 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373164
I used this workaround for 6 months on Gentoo.

> I don't understand in which way your keyboard layout is broken now. Do you
> get "qwerty" when typing "azerty"?

I should have been more precise. The âmainâ layout (french in my case) is fine. But not the variant.
Changing layout (or variant) leads to nothing (still french classic layout, not the variant that I want).

> Do you only have the current problem in Plasma5, or in other DEs as well? 

I do not know.

> Does the keyboard currently work fine in SDDM (the login screen that's
> default for plasma)?

Not the variant.

> Does adjusting the layout with keyboarddrake work?

Yes and no because I did not find variant option with keyboarddrake.
But keyboarddrake have modified my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf.

Which leads me to a hint: Option XkbVariant was not on my conf file. 
I will add it to restore my workaround. Let's see if it works tomorrow.

This files is owned by:
# urpmf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
systemd:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

Lastest update of systemd was at 10th February:
# journalctl --system | grep -i system | grep -i rpm
févr. 10 09:25:27 XXXXXX [RPM][2563]: install systemd-230-9.mga6.x86_64: success

Few dates before the 16th. I still do not know why it worked between 13th and 16th (not working on 11/12th).

It works today.

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

(In reply to Sébastien Picavet from comment #8)
> It works today.

I'm glad it does :-)

(In reply to Sébastien Picavet from comment #7)

> 
> > Does adjusting the layout with keyboarddrake work?
> 
> Yes and no because I did not find variant option with keyboarddrake.
> But keyboarddrake have modified my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf.
> 

Which variant do you use?

It would be good to add it to keyboarddrake

We do currently only have four French French layouts in keyboarddrake:

Dvorak (French)
French
French (Bepo)
French (Bepo, only latin-9)

But it has more French layouts for Belgium, Switzerland, Canada

I use the variant latin9.

It is easier than bépo/dvorak layout (just add shortcut for many useful characters like â« »Åâ).

(In reply to Sébastien Picavet from comment #11)
> I use the variant latin9.
> 


So the one that's shown in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr in the section:

// Historic Linux French keyboard layout (fr-latin9)

correct?

I'm wondering why it was never added before, given the large amount of French users we have.

Source RPM: Unknown => drakx-kbd-mouse-x11
Assignee: kde => marja11
Summary: Plasma's keyboard layout config tool does not comply with xorg.conf.d/* => Add French basic latin-9 keyboard to keyboarddrake (was:Plasma's keyboard layout config tool does not comply with xorg.conf.d/*)
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
CC: (none) => mageiatools, thierry.vignaud
Resolution: INVALID => (none)

Yes it is.

I am too lazy but I should try bépo one dayâ¦

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #12)
> I'm wondering why it was never added before, given the large amount of
> French users we have.

Probably so that we didn't ask a (useless) question for the big load of french users.
"Useless" as in useless for most french users who would not have understand why we asked them this questions since 99.9% would have used "azerty".
It's obviously not useless for fr-latin9 users :-)
But how many are they...?

Hmm ! probably more than bépo users ;)

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1612

Layout like âlatin9â or  âossâ are more suitable if you have an AZERTY keyboard (because most of the keyboard is identical). That's the main advantage of AZERTY latin9/oss over BÃPO.

With BÃPO, you need to buy an special keyboard or put sticker on your keyboard (excepts if you know the position of each key).

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #14)
> (In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #12)
> > I'm wondering why it was never added before, given the large amount of
> > French users we have.
> 
> Probably so that we didn't ask a (useless) question for the big load of
> french users.
> "Useless" as in useless for most french users who would not have understand
> why we asked them this questions since 99.9% would have used "azerty".

I've been in limbo since I read that: what is better:

changing the description for the "French" keyboard into "French (Standard)",
or adding e.g. "French (Only latin-9, very rare)" instead of "French (Only latin-9)", or....?

> It's obviously not useless for fr-latin9 users :-)
> But how many are they...?

It was easy to configure my uncommon Dutch keyboard in Mandrake, when I had only just started using Linux.... the very first distro I tried, Caldera, didn't support it.
Using Mandrake led to using Mandriva, led to using Mageia and, hey, led to me contributing to Mageia :-)

So, I'd like it to be easy for _everyone_ with an uncommon keyboard to configure it. At the same time I do certainly not want to confuse the 99,9% other users.

CC'ing some smart French contributors who are good in describing things, for their opinion on how this list of French keyboards:

  Dvorak (French)
  French
  French (Only latin-9)
  French (Bepo)
  French (Bepo, only latin-9)

can be made the least confusing (none of the 99,9% users with a plain "French" keyboard should select the wrong keyboard)

(In reply to Sébastien Picavet from comment #16)
> Layout like âlatin9â or  âossâ are more suitable if you have an AZERTY
> keyboard (because most of the keyboard is identical). That's the main
> advantage of AZERTY latin9/oss over BÃPO.

Thanks for making clear that the non-Bépo latin-9 keyboard is an AZERTY keyboard, just like the regular French keyboard.

> With BÃPO, you need to buy an special keyboard or put sticker on your
> keyboard (excepts if you know the position of each key).

CC: (none) => lebarhon, rverschelde, stormi, yves.brungard_mageia

Hello,
I know nothing about the variant keyboards. 
For me, I think that the term "only" should be avoided.
It should be latin9, not latin-9.

Hello,

Like Papoteur I don't understand what means "Only", it looks like all the keys aren't there !
A clear list would be for me :

French (Dvorak)
French (Azerty standard)
French (Azerty latin9)
French (Bepo) 

For your information, the AFNOR (French association for standardization, who is the official ISO member for France) is going to publish in September a new standard for keyboards layout. We don't know yet if it will be derived from Bepo or Azerty, but it will be a new layout for Mageia 7 that should replace all the others ... in many years.

Thanks, Yves and André :-)

I understand the AFNOR will publish new standards for both the AZERTY and the BÉPO keyboard http://www.afnor.org/presse_juin2017/clavier-francais-afnor-ouvre-projet-de-norme-aux-commentaires/ , but that they talk about "un AZERTY amélioré et un BÉPO" and that « Les représentants de BÉPO ont saisi l’occasion pour faire à nouveau évoluer leur dispositif ». For some reason, they don't talk about an _improved_ BÉPO :-/

Anyway, we'll probably end up with something like:

French (Dvorak)
French (Azerty latin9)
French (Azerty standard)
French (Azerty standard, Improved)
French (Bepo)
French (Bepo, Evolved)
French (Bepo latin9)

Let's wait to see how the AFNOR refers to the old and the new Azerty standard and Bépo keyboards, after they've published the new standards, before renaming any of the current keyboards we already have.

I intend to add the French (Azerty latin9) keyboard in cauldron before September, though!

I cannot find that the new standard, NF Z71-300, has been published.

My apologies for not having added the French (Azerty latin9) keyboard, yet, real life got in the way.

(In reply to André DESMOTTES from comment #19)

> A clear list would be for me :
> 
> French (Dvorak)
> French (Azerty standard)
(etc)


All Dvorak keyboards have:

   Dvorak (<name of the language>)

It doesn't feel good to do it differently for the French Dvorak keyboard, unless all Dvorak keyboards get changed to 

   <name of the language> (Dvorak)

I would prefer to change that for all Dvorak keyboards, or is there a good reason _not_ to change that?

Btw, the dvorak_eo keyboard, at this moment here: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx-kbd-mouse-x11/tree/lib/keyboard.pm#n212
is probably broken because the last two items should be changed from

       "dvorak",	"eo",

into 

       "epo",           "dvorak",

/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/epo contains the Esperanto xkb maps and it does have an 'xkb_symbols "dvorak"' section

commit ca3898e5c32b6009efd327f12b1a844dad8bbb99
Author: Marja van Waes <marja@...>
Date:   Sun Nov 19 09:25:25 2017 +0100

    Add the French Azerty Latin9 keyboard (mga#20364)
    o and improve the names of some French keyboards
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx-kbd-mouse-x11/commit/?id=ca3898e5c32b6009efd327f12b1a844dad8bbb99

commit fa8abfef7c9a6982ce53f2a4122c3f87724c338d
Author: Marja van Waes <marja@...>
Date:   Sun Nov 19 09:33:27 2017 +0100

    Try to fix the Esperanto Dvorak keyboard (mga#20364)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx-kbd-mouse-x11/commit/?id=fa8abfef7c9a6982ce53f2a4122c3f87724c338d

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #22)
> (In reply to André DESMOTTES from comment #19)
> 
> > A clear list would be for me :
> > 
> > French (Dvorak)
> > French (Azerty standard)
> (etc)
> 
> 
> All Dvorak keyboards have:
> 
>    Dvorak (<name of the language>)
> 
> It doesn't feel good to do it differently for the French Dvorak keyboard,
> unless all Dvorak keyboards get changed to 
> 
>    <name of the language> (Dvorak)
> 
> I would prefer to change that for all Dvorak keyboards, or is there a good
> reason _not_ to change that?
> 

I think we want to keep the old names for the Live isos.

For example:

Someone used to searching for "Dvorak (Norwegian)" in the long list of keyboards when starting a Live medium, might think we no longer support Dvorak keyboards, instead of understanding he should now look for "Norwegian (Dvorak)".

However, I think for traditional installer it would be safe to change the name to "Norwegian (Dvorak)"

So we could have both
"dvorak_no" => [ N_("_: keyboard\nDvorak (Norwegian)"), "no-dvorak", "no", "dvorak", 0 ],
and 
"no_dvorak" => [ N_("_: keyboard\nNorwegian (Dvorak)"), "no-dvorak", "no", "dvorak", 0 ],

and in _tradional_ installer only use the last one for the screen with the smaller selection of keyboards that depends on the selected language(s)

I think both would show up in the Live installer and in keyboarddrake, but I doubt that could be a problem

Any objections?

Closing. The original issue got fixed and it is better to open (a) new bug report(s) for any other changes, for instance (if that hasn't already been done without me noticing it) because of https://www.afnor.org/actualites/clavier-francais-norme-volontaire-ecriture-francais/

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