So long and thanks for all the fish
May 1, 2008 10:41 pm xkeyboard-configThere is a lot of legacy, practically unmaintained stuff in xkeyboard-config. I am trying to be very conservative regarding dropping it – there are people using old hardware, you know… The time has come for the sun-specific and sgi-specific rules. They are very old, Sun people do not use them. So, the files rules/sun* and rules/sgi* are gone now in CVS – and they will be missing in the next release (due in May). The layouts and keymaps are still there – that code is too precious to be dropped earlier than … anyway, not today.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 am
Does this have anything to do with borked colemak layout in X, like the caps lock key and stuff?
’cause that’s bugging the heck out of me..
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 am
(by ‘this’ I mean xkeyboard-config)
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:37 am
Hey very relevant post for me. I just started hacking into xkeyboard-config for the first time last week, trying to fix bug #92652 on LP. I’m basically trying to add a new variant of Brazil Layout called br(br-intl).
I saw that a lot of code is very old and that really mess things up for new people wanting to get hand dirt.
If I happen to get the bug fixed I’ll sure will take it upstream. Also I’d suggest you take a look at the ubuntu source package as it has a lot of patches on current xkeyboard-config code base. Not sure if you’re aware of this fact. Two of the bugs are explicitly marked as send-upstream. I’m sure Ubuntu maintainer will eventualy send this upstream. If I had more experience I would certainly do it myself. But I’m just a first timer
#92652
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/92652
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 am
ethana2: yes, sure, “this” is most probably in charge. Please file a bug
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:17 am
here’s the banner:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/files/images/heron.jpg
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 am
dudus: I absolutely do not mind accepting patches. The usual flow of things (and distromakers usually follow it) is opening bugs in freedesktop.org’s bugzilla, against xkeyboard-config (one bug per layout or variant).
May 13th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
this comment is for your dhcp+ntp post which does not currently allow a comment…and since this is moderated you can probably avoid having it displayed out of place
since you’re running your own ntp and dns server on your own lan, you’re probably running your own dns server as well
in this case simply hijack via your internal dns the domains time.windows.com and time.apple.com (and any others you may need to) – tell your dns server that it is authoritative for these domains and point them to your internal ntp server
ps be careful not to hijack apple.com or windows.com, just the subdomains time.x.y (time1.x.y, etc.).