[LEDE-DEV] international keyboard layout support

[edgar.soldin at web.de]

On 03.06.2016 16:48, John Crispin wrote:
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> On 03/06/2016 14:19, edgar.soldin at web.de wrote:
>> hey All,
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>> i already posted this on openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org , but am currently unsure what the status is for LEDE vs. OpenWrt. so here i go again on this very ml.
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>> while tinkering with Gluon the Openwrt based Freifunk firmware (currently on CC) on a x86 based thin client box i needed support for a german keyboard layout. i managed to realize that manually as i didn't find any prepared packages for this purpose.
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>> is there any interest in a keyboardmaps package, holding busybox compatible binary kmaps and activating the needed busybox utilities? i imagine some devs/users especially on platforms with proper keyboard interfaces (usb/ps2) would appreciate that.
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>> thanks ..ede
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> Hi,
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> generally not a bad idea. the problem is enabling extra uclibc applets.
> can this be done using the normal gnu tools ? x86 will have enough space
> to install extra full blown tools
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you mean busybox applets? it's actually just one CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOADKMAP=y .

i just added a short Gluon specific summary here
 https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/wiki/Commandline-administration#load-a-new-keyboard-layout

a full blown package would autoselect the busybox applet and offer menuconfig entries for users to select the maps they want in their build, although they will probably just add all on x86 most of the time (1.1MB).

i already wrote a uci-defaults/ script that adds the appropriate line to /etc/rc.local so a default mapping will be loaded automagically. that could be made selectable in menuconfig as well.

thanks.. ede