Re: Proposal: virtual package + alternative: x-keyboard

2009-03-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:38:49 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com wrote: In the light of having Debian on all kinds of devices with touchscreens (tablets/freerunner), I propose to add a virtual package x-keyboard or may be better x-onscreen-keyboard ? x- infers screen IMHO in

Re: Proposal: virtual package + alternative: x-keyboard

2009-03-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: However, there is another issue here - if the device is multi-user, most login managers cannot cope with a touchscreen keyboard. gpe-login is one that can, gdm cannot. Having touchscreen keyboard support in X is good as long as the user can log into

Re: Proposal: virtual package + alternative: x-keyboard

2009-03-12 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Primary reason why I raised it appeared when I tried hackable1 Debian-based distribution for freerunner. X server was hardcoded to use /usr/bin/xkbd for a keyboard which comes up whenever user presses AUX button. There were no easy way to alternate the input method. So for qwo package I just

Proposal: virtual package + alternative: x-keyboard

2009-03-11 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
In the light of having Debian on all kinds of devices with touchscreens (tablets/freerunner), I propose to add a virtual package x-keyboard or may be better x-onscreen-keyboard ? and a equivalently named alternative Packages which I should provide it (there could be more): xvkbd qwo