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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Albin <address@hidden> skribis:

> Den 2016-04-16 kl. 10:24, skrev 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
>> 
>
> Yes, I think you're right!  Thanks for fixing this Alex.

OK for me, thanks for the insightful discussion.  :-)

Ludo’.