Re: Reloading keymap under DirectFB

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio fiandrotti gmail com>]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:35 +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
>
> > With the DFB backend i recently experienced the need to force reload of 
> > keymap and i did it by calling directly a DFB function from my GTK app code.
> > Mike Emmel suggested to add something like gdk_directfb_reload_keymap() 
> > to the GDKDFB backend, as this seems to be a generic problem.
> > Any suggestion about other ways keymap reloading could be done?
>
>
> Why is reloading the keymap needed in the first place? I suggest that
> this is fixed in DirectFB instead of adding an API for the sole purpose
> of working around what appears to be a bug in DirectFB.

In the graphical debian-installer, which is GTKDFB based, the user
chooses his native language at a early stage, and from that point on the
keymap must match the choosed language.
Manually reloading the keymap is an a acceptable workaround, but of
course having DFB automatically doing that would be a better option:
dok, could this be implemented in some future DFB release?

Attilio