Bug 120119

Summary: support for catalan keyboard
Product: kcontrol Reporter: Pau Capdevila <pau.capdevila>
Component: kcmkeyboardAssignee: Patrick Dowler <dowler>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Pau Capdevila 2006-01-14 18:09:33 UTC 
Version:           2.0 (using KDE 3.5.0, Debian Package 4:3.5.0-3 (testing/unstable))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.14-2-k7

Catalan is the official language for Andorra (ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code: AD;Flag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Andorra.svg) and coofficial in a comunity of above 11 million people spread across Spain, France and Italy.

There's a patch filed against x.org in order to include AD xkb keymap (upstreamed from debian bug #346298).

Although catalan users within Spain can use spanish (ES) fairly well. Catalan users within France (FR) have it more difficult.

Here are the reasons why this layout is necessary:

English layout was designed in order that metacharacters where accessible. This is an advantadge in all areas but it is a need in power-user or professional tasks such as programming or command line.

Spanish layout added 4 keys and reconfigured english layout making it less accessible.

Thanks a lot,

Kapde
Comment 1 Ramon Bertran 2006-01-14 20:52:23 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 2 Pau Capdevila 2006-01-15 01:57:35 UTC 
Debian bug #346298 is about console-data (kbd package).

AD keyboard layout is already present in xlibs CVS:

http://cvs.freedesktop.org/*checkout*/xlibs/xkbdesc/symbols/ad?rev=1.1

sorry
Comment 3 Pau Capdevila 2006-01-15 18:29:01 UTC 
Well...sorry for all this noise.

I've finally found that this is an xserver-only affair.

Users who want the layout present under kcontrol keyboard layout module have to modify /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst and add the line:

  ad              Andorra

Under the layout section.

Sorry again.

Kapde