slightly modified keyboard layout including arrow keys.

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, September 8, 2011 13:31:31 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> I agree that it is a problem, but accepting duplicate keys for some layouts,

except that is looks unprofessional and sucks for usage. the logic of the keys 
is confusing, the ease of having like-keys together is lost .. so while it may 
be the easy solution, it isn't one we can should accept.

supporting localized layouts and switching between them when the localized 
keyboard changes is perhaps a good way forward?

it would mean:

* allowing things like tablet-de.xml .. or having a mapping somewhere that 
maps "de", "ch", "fr", etc. to different layouts (to share xml layouts between 
similar-enough locales)

* when there is a localized layout, just obey the layout as published by x11 
100% (as it currently does)

that would mean no changs for the desktop layout, for instance, while allowing 
us to ship multiple tablet / mobile layouts. switching between layouts is 
already well supported (i added a dbus api for this to the keyboard container 
recently in fact :), so all that's needed is the localization mapping and 
checking that when the keyboard locale changes.

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