Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:59:40 +0100 From: Hans Nieser <h.nieser@xs4all.nl> To: Mark Nowiasz <buckaroo@gmx.de>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solution Message-ID: <4390A7AC.5000806@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <1133550903.757.24.camel@tower> References: <1133550903.757.24.camel@tower>
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Mark Nowiasz wrote:
> Hans Nieser wrote:
>
>>I suppose this means that if you want a non-default keyboard layout you
>>have to set it through the XkbModel/XkbLayout options in xorg.conf from
>>now on. I wonder why the Keyboard Preferences dialog wasn't updated
>>accordingly though... I might be entirely wrong about this
>
>
> Actually, this is quite hard to believe - this would make the keyboard
> preferences (and the panel) totally useless. In this case, Gnome should
> disable the settings.
>
> It's also hard to believe because there are very valid reasons to allow
> the user to use a different layout (instead of the system's layout):
>
> * consider a true multi-user system, where users want to use
> "their" native keyboard layout (for example, at a international
> university)
> * sometimes, it's quite useful to switch layouts on the fly - the
> US keyboard layout has certain aadvantages to the German one
> when you want to program something ({}[] are more easily
> accessible).
>
> Disabling this feature would be madness, IMHO.
I fully agree, which is why I am seriously doubting wether my conclusion
is correct, but then the comments for the
"/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/overrideSettings" key are pretty
clear about it too.
I guess they real question is, what is meant by "system configuration"?,
is it user-specific? (although I suppose the name can be percieved to
imply that it is not), and where is it changed?
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