Re: [PATCH] services: 'console-keymap-service' takes multiple files.

[Alex Kost]

Albin (2016-04-16 05:47 +0300) wrote:

> Den 2016-04-15 kl. 23:17, skrev Ludovic Courtès:
>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
[...]
>>> @deffn {Scheme Procedure} console-keymap-service @var{files} ...
>>> @cindex keyboard layout
>>> Return a service to load console keymaps from @var{files} using
>>> @command{loadkeys} command.  Most likely, you want to load some default
>>> keymap, which can be done like this:
>>>
>>> @example
>>> (console-keymap-service "dvorak")
>>> @end example
>>>
>>> Or, for example, for Swedish keyboards, you may need to combine keymaps:
>>> @example
>>> (console-keymap-service "se-ir209" "se-fi-ir209")
>>
>> Ideally with a few words to explain why this is useful on Swedish
>> keyboards (Albin? :-)), but otherwise LGTM!
>
> I don't think it's necessary to explain exactly why it's useful here
> because it's a simple fact that loading just the first "se-ir209"
> doesn't enable a Swedish but some kind of US-Danish freak keymap :-),
> which the user will soon discover.  If it doesn't cross your mind that
> *two* keymaps may be necessary for using *one* keyboard (how obvious is
> that, really?), then you might start to think that perhaps the Guix
> folks simply forgot to include the one that you need.  IMHO upstream
> should ditch the whole dual keymap thing if it's technically feasible to
> do so.

It is definitely feasible.  I think it is done so because it is simple:
instead of making a single map file for a Swedish keyboard, they just
made a small "extension" to a general Scandinavian layout (If I
understand it correctly).

> The formulation above looks good to me also, except I think it's clearer
> with the formulation "a Swedish keyboard" in this context.

Fixed, thanks!

I think I'll change the example from "ir209" to "lat6", as "se-lat6.map"
has the following line in the commentary:

  # Covers ISO 8859-10, 1993

Since it is the Standard¹, I think it is better to use it in the
example.  WDYT?

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-10

-- 
Alex