[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 7:11 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds right.
>
> 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
>> >>>>> _______________________________________________
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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
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