Re: [Morphix-devel] Internationalisation..

[Alex de L. <ale...@xs...>]

Hey lists and Jose,

At first, i thought that i18n could indeed be done with minimodules, however
adding a minimodule is still not all too easy... yet. Instead, I was thinking
about making a simple i18n application, in the same manner as the networkconf
and xconf tools i was playing around with. In cases where certain extra packages
are needed for a locale, using minimodules might be the only way, but, when the
locale already is available for use, a loadkey-frontend might be a better idea.
Never have been a fan of prompting the user too, i might add...

Anyway, don't forget that simply ripping out XF86Config-4 and throwing a
modified version into a module isn't the way to go, as it is generated at
boottime. A simple line of shell that forces certain settings seems a better
way, this could be done after XF86Config-4 is generated. 

I'm still wrestling with how to solve i18n: minimodules, settings or a
combination. All will work, but the real question is: what is most suitable?

Anyway, it's good to exchange some ideas on this,

Cheers,
Alex


Quoting Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jo...@ja...>:

> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:11:16PM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> > Hello List,
> > 
> > I came up with a rather pailness way to handle internationalisation, at 
> > lease as fgar as keyboards are concerned.
> > 
> > Linux stores the keyboard mapping i the following file:
> > 
> > /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
> > 
> > and the layout for X11 is in
> > 
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> > 
> > now, if we took those two files out of the Base/BaseX system, and made 
> > them modules, adapting keyboards would be childs' play (just load the 
> > swedish-keyboard-minimodule if you need a swedish keyboard)
> > 
> > Of ocurse, this odes not yet allow to ask at runtime, but that could 
> > ocme later
> 
>   This is something that Metadistros loader is aiming to allow, asking
>   some of such questions at init time if the person who has made the
>   distro thinks that it's necesary.
> 
>   I think that this is a nice thing to have.
> 
> -- 
>   Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
>      js...@de...
> 


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