xorg-x11-xkbdata, xkbdata, xkeyboard-config and you

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for doing this switch, having struggled with the old data package
overwriting my keysyms for my multimedia keys for a while I am happy to
see this go in.

Unfortunately there are a couple of problems atm. Both of them might
actually be something else than this switch though, but I did discover
them both just after this switch. The first is that it seems 'repeat
keys mode' are no longer the default. Not a big problem, I was able to
turn it on again quickly through the keyboard preferences applet, but
the behavior did change for me as part of some package update.

The second issue is that both Banshee and Rhythmbox seems unaware of the
multimedia keys suddenly. Totem still works though and 'xev' do reports
the keysyms being correct, so this might be an application problem of
some sort. Maybe they need the same legacy stuff as KDE was reported to
need, so that as soon as I get updated to the 1.0.1-6 package they start
working again.

Christian


On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:12 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Hi Mike
> > 
> > I just wanted to report a direct result of the change here is the gnome
> > keyboard switcher started working again in Rawhide (after months of
> > misbehaviour)
> > 
> > Thanks for making the switch. I know it was a hard decision to make just
> > before a release. Even if the xkbdata core contributors made it pretty
> > clear they only cared about xkeyboard-config nowadays.
> 
> Yeah, the long term goal has always been to switch to xkeyboard-config
> ever since it split off from XFree86 when X.Org revitalized itself.
> 
> However, while Xorg was still monolithic it made sense to use what
> X.Org shipped rather than trying to hack on the xkeyboard-config
> bits.  Also some people had concerns about backward compatibility
> and other stuff.
> 
> With X11R7, upstream wanted to keep using the unmaintained data for
> some reason, which had to do with um...  ok, I don't know.  Silly
> worries or something.  ;o)
> 
> There were a few other things I'm struggling to try and forget now,
> so I wont bore you. ;)
> 
> Even if things break for people now, we are in the best position
> going forward with xkeyboard-config IMHO.  Mainly because bugs
> in xkbdata are more or less permanent "so sorry, deal with it"
> in nature. ;o)
> 
> Hopefully xkeyboard-config transition is smooth for FC5 now.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mike A. Harris  *  Open Source Advocate  *  http://mharris.ca
>                        Proud Canadian.
>