Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use keyboard bits from system-config-keyboard now

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tuesday, July 28 2009, Bill Nottingham said:
> Jeremy Katz (katzj redhat com) said: 
> > On Tuesday, July 28 2009, Bill Nottingham said:
> > > Jeremy Katz (katzj redhat com) said: 
> > > > system-config-keyboard has the keyboard bits now, so let's use
> > > > those rather than the ones from rhpl
> > > 
> > > What if we want to kill system-config-keyboard? It doesn't really
> > > serve a purpose outside from setting the initial system config.
> > > (See also: language, rootpassword, etc.)
> > 
> > It's also used in firstboot.  And we're already using the *widgets* from
> > system-config-keyboard, so using the model lists from there too is
> > entirely reasonable...
> 
> Maybe the answer is just to depackage the standalone tools. (as opposed
> to the widgetry/firstboot bits)

We probably really need to see how we can use the (now existing, though
desktop enviroment specific) tools/frontends at install time rather than
having our own slightly different UI.

But non-trivial to do as embeddability isn't necessarily their raison
d'être unlike the s-c bits where we built them that way to begin with
(largely by starting with what had been in anaconda and pulling it
out to be separate).

As Chris said on IRC -- around and around and around it goes....

Jeremy