On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:59:51PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>Le jeu 12/12/2002 � 13:54, Nicolas Mailhot a �crit :
>> (re-send after actually finishing subscribing to the list, sorry about this)
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>      For years the fr keyboard in xfree86 was broken and painful to use (I
>> can elaborate a *lot* more if anyone's interested). It even sparked the
>> creation of a very complete howto detailling how anyone needing to work
>> in X everyday could replace it with a version that actually worked ( ie
>> the francophones-howto aka the french-howto)
>> 
>>      This layout was merged in kbd.
>> 
>>      Unfortunately it has also been broken by recent changes in xfree cvs 
>
>In fact I fixed my setup by moving the layout definition from
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc

Can you point out an example or two of the differences between the two?
The symbols/pc version should be a version of the previous one that's
suitable for multi-layout use.

>What would it take to get this layout merged ?

The best way would be to provide it in a format that fits in with the
multi-layout symbols definitions in symbols/pc.

David
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David Dawes
Release Engineer/Architect                      The XFree86 Project
www.XFree86.org/~dawes
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