From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Albin <albin@fripost.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] services: 'console-keymap-service' takes multiple files.
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:24:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twj2hsgi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5711A7C1.3040601@fripost.org> (albin@fripost.org's message of "Sat, 16 Apr 2016 04:47:29 +0200")
Albin (2016-04-16 05:47 +0300) wrote:
> Den 2016-04-15 kl. 23:17, skrev Ludovic Courtès:
>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
[...]
>>> @deffn {Scheme Procedure} console-keymap-service @var{files} ...
>>> @cindex keyboard layout
>>> Return a service to load console keymaps from @var{files} using
>>> @command{loadkeys} command. Most likely, you want to load some default
>>> keymap, which can be done like this:
>>>
>>> @example
>>> (console-keymap-service "dvorak")
>>> @end example
>>>
>>> Or, for example, for Swedish keyboards, you may need to combine keymaps:
>>> @example
>>> (console-keymap-service "se-ir209" "se-fi-ir209")
>>
>> Ideally with a few words to explain why this is useful on Swedish
>> keyboards (Albin? :-)), but otherwise LGTM!
>
> I don't think it's necessary to explain exactly why it's useful here
> because it's a simple fact that loading just the first "se-ir209"
> doesn't enable a Swedish but some kind of US-Danish freak keymap :-),
> which the user will soon discover. If it doesn't cross your mind that
> *two* keymaps may be necessary for using *one* keyboard (how obvious is
> that, really?), then you might start to think that perhaps the Guix
> folks simply forgot to include the one that you need. IMHO upstream
> should ditch the whole dual keymap thing if it's technically feasible to
> do so.
It is definitely feasible. I think it is done so because it is simple:
instead of making a single map file for a Swedish keyboard, they just
made a small "extension" to a general Scandinavian layout (If I
understand it correctly).
> The formulation above looks good to me also, except I think it's clearer
> with the formulation "a Swedish keyboard" in this context.
Fixed, thanks!
I think I'll change the example from "ir209" to "lat6", as "se-lat6.map"
has the following line in the commentary:
# Covers ISO 8859-10, 1993
Since it is the Standard¹, I think it is better to use it in the
example. WDYT?
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-10
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-16 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-08 21:32 [PATCH] services: 'console-keymap-service' takes multiple files Alex Kost
2016-04-09 8:16 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-13 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-15 16:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-15 20:19 ` Albin
2016-04-16 8:24 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-15 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-16 2:47 ` Albin
2016-04-16 8:24 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-04-16 14:41 ` Albin
2016-04-16 22:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-17 7:41 ` Alex Kost
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