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

[Jerry Vonau]

On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 18:49 -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
> 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.

Or don't install the sugar-cp-keyboard rpm, like the current XO images,
no need to hard-code that. Note that sugar-cp-all drags in
sugar-cp-power, perhaps sugar-cp-keyboard can replace sugar-cp-keyboard
in sugar-cp-all. I think then this XO specific piece of code can go
away.

just my 3 cents,

Jerry 



> >
> > 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
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list
> >>>>> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> regards.
> >>>>
> >>>> -walter
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Soon on Internet,
> >>>
> >>> Jean Thiéry [Jean.Thiery(ò)ModLibre.info][http://ModLibre.info/]
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Walter Bender
> >> Sugar Labs
> >> http://www.sugarlabs.org
> 
> 
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