[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 18:20 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 18:11 -0600, Jerry Vonau 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.
> > 
> 
> woops, 
> That should read "perhaps sugar-cp-keyboard can replace sugar-cp-powerd"
> 

Attached proposed change to sugar's spec file and a merge request[1] for
the sugar change. Tested on SoaS-F20-5 liveinst in a VM.

Jerry

1. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/135


> 
> > 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
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> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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