[Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4
Walter Bender
walter.bender at gmail.com
Sat Nov 9 08:50:17 EST 2013
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> walter wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Basanta Shrestha
> > <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > > They are hard/clicky ones.
> >
> > So I think what we should do is a combination of the suggestions made
> > previously: if you set the manufacturing data (KL) [1] to tell the
> > laptops that they have Nepali keyboards, you will be part of the way
> > there. But we need to make a new variant (KV) for the "hard/clicky"
> > (HS) keyboard. As I mentioned earlier, we need to decide what the key
> > combination for switching languages will be, since there is no
> > physical :Language key.
>
> at what level is the language key handled, on laptops with the
> membrane keyboards? (i.e., X? sugar?) that might influence what
> sort of combination is available or useful for doing the switch.
It is handled in X in the xkb symbol file.
-walter
> paul
>
> >
> > -walter
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Basanta Shrestha
> > >> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > >> > But for XO-4 we will just be getting ones with English layout. I was
> > >> > wondering how we can enable nepali keyboard input on it.
> > >>
> > >> Are these keyboards hard/clicky/high-school style, or soft/membrane?
> > >>
> > >> Daniel
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Basanta Shrestha
> > > Network Engineer
> > > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
> > > Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
> > > Cell: +977.9818 605110
> > > http://www.olenepal.org
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> paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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