[indiana-discuss] Per user keyboard settings

[Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems]

Hi Brian,

IIIMF r12 doesn't depend on libxklavier.
It currently auto-detects keyboard layout from OS layer.
So, yes, it can not work in remote environment as is.
This is the current restriction.
In this case, users need to set their actual layout manually
through Keyboard tab in iiim-properties utility.

Thanks,
Fuyuki

Brian Nitz wrote:
> Laurent Blume wrote:
>> Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems a écrit :
>>   
>>> Indiana May release will include IIIMF.
>>>     
> Does this mean we have a version of IIMF which doesn't depend on 
> libxklavier's use of private interfaces?  Have the bugs which surface 
> when IIIMF is used with different Xserver versions on server and client 
> have been resolved? 
> 
> e.g.
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152105
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383356
> 
> If iiimf and libxklavier are included without fixing these problem, a 
> release note or other documentation should indicate that anyone trying 
> to remotely display to a Windows, Apple, Linux, Solaris or Sun Ray X 
> server may experience strange keyboard behavior and that it is only 
> known to work well when the remote display and host X servers are 
> identical.  (e.g. both are local)
> 
>> I'll do my best to try it before it ships, then, if there's still a
>> chance to send feedback about those bugs.
>>   
> 
>>   
>>> As for S10, several bugs for keyboard emulation support have been fixed.
>>>     
>> I know, I installed it, it fixed bugs I reported about 2 years ago.
>> But the keyboard layout emulation is still not working. When I select
>> something else that what is autodetected for my French my Type 6, the
>> result is a mess.
>>
>>   
>>> Please try the latest patch 120410-28(sparc)/120411-28(i386) and if you
>>> found a problem, please file a bug.
>>>     
>> No, thank you. I filed many bugs and wasted a lot of time on
>> 120410/120411 since they were introduced, and caused great grief to my
>> daily work. I know very much exactly how useless it is (and believe me,
>> my contact in the French Sun Support team was also quite desperate at
>> the total lack of interest of the escalation team).
>>
>> However, I did receive some very valuable help from Sun people on the
>> I18N mailing list, in particular from the Sun Japan I18N team, which
>> eventually led to most of those bugs being fixed in the last weeks. I
>> appreciate that, so I'll happily provide any detail directly to you if
>> you're interested in fixing that keyboard layout issue.
>>
>> Laurent
>>   
> 
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