Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is that I'm pretty sad at the state of support for anything-but-U.S.-English in Fedora 18. Here's the tally: *

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Caterpillar
Il 03/01/2013 09:03, Adam Williamson ha scritto: 1. In the short term, is the combination of all these factors enough for us to want to delay F18 further to try and make things suck less? I was waiting for an e-mail like yours, and I am happy to see someone speaking about a delay of F18 release.

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2013 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is that I'm pretty sad at the state of support for anything-but-U.S.-English in Fedora 18. snip.../snip I

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:23 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/03/2013 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is that I'm pretty sad at the state of

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread William Brown
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:42 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:23 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/03/2013 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 20:17 +1030, William Brown wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:42 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:23 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/03/2013 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2013 09:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: I really didn't want this to turn into a release philosophy thread, the question was limited strictly to a 'how bad do we really think these keymap issues are' thing. Yes and I think they are bad enough that we should delay the release for them

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 3.1.2013 10:51, Adam Williamson napsal(a): On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 20:17 +1030, William Brown wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:42 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:23 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/03/2013 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. I'm not

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 11:31 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 3.1.2013 10:51, Adam Williamson napsal(a): On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 20:17 +1030, William Brown wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:42 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:23 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Adam Williamson píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 00:03 -0800: Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is that I'm pretty sad at the state of support for anything-but-U.S.-English in Fedora 18. Here's

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 3.1.2013 11:34, Adam Williamson napsal(a): On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 11:31 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 3.1.2013 10:51, Adam Williamson napsal(a): On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 20:17 +1030, William Brown wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:42 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:23

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Fabian Deutsch
Jiri Eischmann wrote: Adam Williamson píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 00:03 -0800: … 2. If not, do we want to engage in some Messaging around the F18 release to emphasize that we know there are all these issues and we'll try to smooth things out for F19? … So yes, these issues are serious,

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2013 10:37 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: So yes, these issues are serious, but IMHO rather a long-term problem we should focus on after releasing F18. I disagree I think we need to fix those things first. Ask yourself this, If the roles where reversed and US keymaps and translation was

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is that I'm pretty sad at the state of support for anything-but-U.S.-English in Fedora 18. Here's the tally: *

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread drago01
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Fabian Deutsch fabian.deut...@gmx.de wrote: Jiri Eischmann wrote: Adam Williamson píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 00:03 -0800: … 2. If not, do we want to engage in some Messaging around the F18 release to emphasize that we know there are all these issues and

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 12:40 +: On 01/03/2013 10:37 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: So yes, these issues are serious, but IMHO rather a long-term problem we should focus on after releasing F18. I disagree I think we need to fix those things first. Ask yourself

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jiri Eischmann
drago01 píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 14:13 +0100: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Fabian Deutsch fabian.deut...@gmx.de wrote: Jiri Eischmann wrote: Adam Williamson píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 00:03 -0800: … 2. If not, do we want to engage in some Messaging around the F18 release to

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread drago01
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Jiri Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: drago01 píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 14:13 +0100: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Fabian Deutsch fabian.deut...@gmx.de wrote: Jiri Eischmann wrote: Adam Williamson píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 00:03 -0800: … 2. If

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jiri Eischmann
drago01 píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 14:43 +0100: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Jiri Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: drago01 píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 14:13 +0100: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Fabian Deutsch fabian.deut...@gmx.de wrote: Jiri Eischmann wrote: Adam Williamson

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 03.01.13 00:03, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889562 - systemd conversion from xkb to console layouts fails probably more than it succeeds, when it does, you wind up with U.S. English as your console layout, not whatever you

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread drago01
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: In the meantime, until somebody wants to spend the time on writing this tool I think the best is to update the keyboard mapping table that systemd ships. I am more than happy to apply patches to that and it's no

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2013 01:57 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: drago01 píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 14:43 +0100: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Jiri Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: drago01 píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 14:13 +0100: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Fabian Deutsch fabian.deut...@gmx.de wrote:

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is that I'm pretty sad at the state of support for anything-but-U.S.-English in Fedora 18. Here's the tally: *

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
t...@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2013 4:15:29 PM Subject: Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Josef Skladanka jskla...@redhat.com wrote: I'm absolutely +1 with jeischmann and jreznik on this matter. Keyboard

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/03/2013 04:01 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: What is not right here while the distribution has significantly increased in size the release cycle has not been extended to accommodate for that ( amongst other growth pain we suffer from ) The number of packages might have increased, but it

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Thomas Sailer
On 01/03/2013 04:01 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: I assume you are not using encrypted partition I do. Given that we are already that far behind the schedule few more months hardly matter or at least delay the release up to the point this issues are fixed. Yes it does. Many already

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: 3. In the longer term, how can we get anaconda, i18n, systemd, GNOME etc folks all pointed in the same direction and working so that there's far less suckage and far more smooth interaction going on here? Should we try

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 14:19 +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson píše v Čt 03. 01. 2013 v 12:40 +: On 01/03/2013 10:37 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: So yes, these issues are serious, but IMHO rather a long-term problem we should focus on after releasing F18. I disagree

Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 15:43 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 03.01.13 00:03, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889562 - systemd conversion from xkb to console layouts fails probably more than it succeeds, when it does, you

Re: Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

2013-01-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 03.01.13 09:38, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: If we have such a tool, can we make the whole area of keymap configuration much less insane? Right now we appear to have at least the following: Well, we still will allow configuration of per-boot, per-system and per-user

Re: Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 18:53 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 03.01.13 09:38, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: If we have such a tool, can we make the whole area of keymap configuration much less insane? Right now we appear to have at least the following: Well, we

Re: Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

2013-01-03 Thread John Reiser
On 01/03/2013 09:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: if there's /etc/keyboard.conf specifying 'KEYBOARD=foo', [then] I should never have to pass 'KEYBOARD=foo' as a cmdline to make foo my keyboard layout in some case. As things stand I believe I do, for passphrase entry during dracut. The dracut

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:09 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891487 - anaconda doesn't seem to manage to offer all the keyboard layouts it could do, and some of the ones it's missing are somewhat important Already accepted as NTH, Vratislav

Re: Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:26 -0800, John Reiser wrote: On 01/03/2013 09:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: if there's /etc/keyboard.conf specifying 'KEYBOARD=foo', [then] I should never have to pass 'KEYBOARD=foo' as a cmdline to make foo my keyboard layout in some case. As things stand I

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:09 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891487 - anaconda doesn't seem to manage to offer all the keyboard layouts it could do, and some of the ones it's missing are somewhat important

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: In addition to those bugs, we have fairly significant regressions in the completeness of anaconda translations between Fedora 16 and Fedora 18 (the numbers for F17 for some languages are weird - a lot of languages show 55% completion for F17 but

Re: Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

2013-01-03 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Oh sure. I guess I need to draw a distinction between what I see as two different cases. Which I'm sure you understand but I'm having trouble describing clearly. I guess what I'm saying is, if there's /etc/keyboard.conf

Re: Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 19:58 +0100, Till Maas wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Oh sure. I guess I need to draw a distinction between what I see as two different cases. Which I'm sure you understand but I'm having trouble describing clearly. I guess