OLPC devs, I'm not sure exactly what is happening upstream with keyboards in GNOME, but this looks like there might be an opportunity to upstream some of the special local keyboard variations carried by Sugar / OLPC, or at least get them "officially" registered in the GNOME database of keyboard layouts.
cjl ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:01 AM Subject: Re: Help with collecting keyboard data To: Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> Cc: GNOME i18n list <gnome-i...@gnome.org> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > GNOME uses a database that maps keyboard layouts to countries and > languages. This is used to try and guess which layouts will be > interesting to users depending on their country and language. > > Unfortunately, this database has a lot of gaps. To try and fix this, > we are trying to collect information about which keyboard layouts > people use, so we have a more complete database. This will hopefully > let us make better guesses about keyboard layouts. > > It would be great if translation contributors could help us out with > this. It's very simple: just check out the instructions on the > keyboard data wiki page [1] and fill in the table with any information > you might have about which layouts are used. > > This wiki page is still quite new, so just let me know if you have any > problems or are unsure about anything. > > Thanks in advance for you help! > > Allan Day > > [1] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/KeyboardData > Dear Allan, OLPC (and Sugar Labs) get into the keyboard creation business with some regularity. I see a few "olpc" keyboards on your list, but for a more complete listing see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Keyboard_layouts There may be some layouts for languages you don't have already (albeit for OLPC keyboard configs). You are only looking for XKB layouts? With the touchscreen version of the XO laptop (XO-4) due to be announced any day now (at CES, I think) there is a lot of effort going into Maliit on-screen keyboard layouts http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit_Layouts With two million XO laptops out there, and given that the OLPC OS is running the Sugar UI on a GNOME/Fedora stack and offering a GNOME desktop as a dual-boot option, you'll have to make your own calls about how important they are to include, but you might want to touch base with the OLPC devs via http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel if there are any questions, if only because by the nature of the OLPC / Sugar Labs mission, we deal with some "exotic" language options and collaborate with a lot of language communities just starting to "plant their flag" on Linux (e.g. new locales, etc.). Warmest Regards, cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel