Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:35:32 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> To: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Stefan Esser <se@localhost.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r270114 - head/share/vt/keymaps Message-ID: <16F39FE4-93FE-4C43-AE3F-88DDC34A8796@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <53F1D78B.7070606@freebsd.org> References: <201408171954.s7HJsLmX099240@svn.freebsd.org> <53F10E95.30108@freebsd.org> <53F11A04.504@freebsd.org> <D91A1AD0-2097-4095-AE1F-0685BF876F54@freebsd.org> <53F1D78B.7070606@freebsd.org>
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Il giorno 18/ago/2014, alle ore 05:38, Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> ha = scritto: > Am 17.08.2014 um 23:40 schrieb Pedro Giffuni: >>=20 >> Il giorno 17/ago/2014, alle ore 16:09, Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org >> <mailto:se@freebsd.org>> ha scritto: >>> Therefore, what you'd name "es_LA" (or es-la) is now latinamerican >>> (it could be "latinamerican-es" if you wanted to make the language >>> visible in the name). The country comes first, and if there is no >>> country code (e.g. because the keymap is used in many countries), >>> a longer name is used. >>=20 >> That would, IMHO, be fine. What I dislike is that all other files are = using >> two letter codes and meanwhile the latinamerican thing has the long >> name :-P. >=20 > Ahh, I see. Well, this long name is meant to stand out when looking at > the keymap files. If you use kbdmap to select a keymap, then it does > not matter how long the name is. And if you select the file by name > from within the keymaps directory, then a short name could easily be > overlooked. >=20 > And se-la would mean "Spain using the latinamerican language" ;-) > since the first part is the country, not the language. >=20 I should have been clearer: I meant la-es would be fine. > But you are not suffering alone: there is "centraleuropean.iso", too. >=20 Funny thing is almost all latin-american countries speak Spanish but in = Spain there is Catalan and other languages as well so when looking at the = directories (ls -la) the keyboards will look unordered. Sorting the keyboards by = language would be more natural, but I guess that as an exercise for the = installer. >> FWIW, I tried to change that in syscons but the reduced nomenclature >> came too late and changing names caused too much trouble in >> sysinstall.. >=20 > I thought it was a good time since nearly all files needed to change > anyway, because of the removal of the encoding from the names. >=20 > Names in syscons are probably encoded in lots of rc.conf files, and > changing them might have been a big POLA. >=20 Yes, we renamed the latin-american keyboard once (before I was a = commiter) and the related bug report remained open for some years. Pedro. > one thing that I'm thinking about is whether we should have an > optional keymap_sc and keymap_vt in rc.conf, which allows to have > different keymap files when running under SYSCONS vs. NEWCONS. >=20 > This would be easy to implement, with keymap still being used, > unless the more specific variable for the console driver used has > an override. >=20 > I think I'll just implement this for -CURRENT and wait for opinions, > whether this should be merged to -STABLE ... >=20 > Best regards, Stefan
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