[SoaS] No keyboard choice <- Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS v10 testing and a few minor issues with 0.100

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py there is:
>>
>> POWERD_FLAG_DIR = '/etc/powerd/flags'
>>
>>     def _setup_options(self):
>>         if not os.access(POWERD_FLAG_DIR, os.W_OK):
>>             del self._options['power']
>>             del self._options['keyboard']
>>
>> which might explain why the keyboard selection is missing.
>
> Dare I ask why keyboard depends on powerd? Do we know what this commit
> was any who did it? powerd is a olpc XO specific thing so is never
> going to be present on anything other than an XO. I suspect it's
> suppose to hide those options if it's on a XO due to them being
> generally hidden by deployments and hence is the check is wrong.

No idea. Just saw it and flagged it.
We can use gconf on the XO to suppress the keyboard setting.

>
> Peter
>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Jean THIERY <Jean.Thiery at modlibre.info> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Le 19/11/2013 18:27, Walter Bender a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> I downloaded « *Fedora-Live-Soas-i686-20-Beta-5.iso* »
>>>>>> from  http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease#desktops
>>>>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> In "My parameters" there is no icon for "keyboard choice".
>>> So, it is not possible to get a localized keyboard !
>>>
>>> I think that this was already true with version 9 of Sugar on a Stick
>>> (to be checked !).
>>>
>>>>> Peter
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> regards.
>>>>
>>>> -walter
>>>
>>>
>>> Soon on Internet,
>>>
>>> Jean Thiéry [Jean.Thiery(ò)ModLibre.info][http://ModLibre.info/]
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
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