Re: [Indlinux-group] Move Indian keyboard layouts from base.xml.in to base.extras.xml.in - xkb dead for Indic?!

[Alam <apr...@gm...>]

On 15/09/17 01:16 PM, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> Hi Karunakar Ji

thanks for keeping eye (as always).

> A downside of using debian stable, some things miss past.
> 
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/?id=913af7dafaab8ff4a9ae0d1e4c4097caf4a8022d
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> Move Indian keyboard layouts from base.xml.in to base.extras.xml.in
> Apparently the Indian keyboard layouts in xkeyboard-config are not
> very useful because of limitations in xkb. In xkb, it is not possible
> to output several characters when one key is pressed but that seems
> sometimes necessary.
> 
> For Indian languages, the input methods supplied by ibus-m17n appear
> to be more useful, having the xkb keyboard layouts show up as well in
> the gnome-control centre confuse the user because of too many useless
> choices.  <<-- Hmm, when 80-90% of indic m17n is just copy of xkb
> stuff!
> --------
> 
> Yes sure all keymaps in single file were bloating it, in which case
> would have been better to split language wise. A config file for each
> language.
> 
> Seems it was later fixed after some outrage!
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101532
> 

kudos to people, who helped to fix this.

Thanks
Alam