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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
LiveCD session improvement
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Suresh Chandrasekharan
1.3 Date of This Document:
14 October, 2009
4. Technical Description
4.1. Details:
gdm-2.28 is soon be integrating to OpenSolaris. Compared
with the existing gdm-2.20.10 this is major rewrite. One of the
capabilities of this gdm, if there's a backend libxklavier
library to support it is the ability to select a keyboard
layout from the gdm login screen. Both the already existing
login locales menu and the new keyboard layout menu are placed
on a panel at the bottom of the screen.
Support to change the keyboard layout is needed at GDM level
for machines shared by users who use different keyboards or
users sharing a single keyboard with possibly different layouts.
PSARC/2009/483 - "libxklavier re-integration" enables gdm-2.28
to display the keyboard layouts in the gdm screen. The backend
library libxklavier is provided through that case.
One major advantage of providing the gnome keyboard and
locale selection at the gdm screen is that, we can effectively
replace the text console based keyboard/language selection that
we currently have in OpenSolaris 2009.06 LiveCD. The menu based
selection can hold more keyboards/locales in them than the text
console based selection.
The initial feedback from xDesign is that we need to automatically
popup the keyboard/language selection when user is booting
up the LiveCD. We will also work with LiveCD team to disable the
text based selection screens for keyboard layout and locales.
4.5. Interfaces:
Imported Interfaces
-------------------
Interface Stability Notes
--------- --------- -----
From PSARC/2009/483
SUNWlibxklavier
/usr/lib/libxklavier.so.15.0.0 Volatile library
/usr/lib/libxklavier.so.15 Volatile sym link
/usr/lib/libxklavier.so Volatile sym link
SUNWlibxklavier-devel
/usr/include/libxklavier/xkl-enum-types.h Volatile Header File
/usr/include/libxklavier/xkl_config_item.h Volatile Header File
/usr/include/libxklavier/xkl_config_rec.h Volatile Header File
/usr/include/libxklavier/xkl_config_registry.h Volatile Header File
/usr/include/libxklavier/xkl_engine.h Volatile Header File
/usr/include/libxklavier/xkl_engine_marshal.h Volatile Header File
/usr/include/libxklavier/xklavier.h Volatile Header File
From PSARC/2009/117 and PSARC/2009/440
/usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/* Uncommitted XKB definition files &
directories.
Obsoleted Interfaces
-------------------
Language/kbd selection text console screens in LiveCD from
slim_source/usr/src/cmd/slim-instal/svc/live-fs-root
Exported Interfaces
--------------------
No significant interfaces are exported
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
G11N
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
