Re: keymap rule selection for non-DMI platforms

[Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>]

karl o. pinc wrote:
 > On 08/16/2011 05:54:04 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
 > 
 > > However, to complicate things further with another item on our TODO
 > > list: OLPC offers the same identical laptop models with two alternate
 > > keyboards - membrane and mechanical. This is for both x86 and ARM
 > > models. At the moment, we use the same keymap for both even despite
 > > differences in the keys, but we plan to improve on this in future
 > > since it is a bug that keys do not behave according to the symbols
 > > printed on them!
 > > 
 > > There is no other difference in the laptop other than the keyboard, 
 > > so
 > > this information could not be captured in the bare-bones info
 > > presented in DMI or by the theoretical system mentioned above, unless
 > > we were to do something hacky like encode the keyboard model in the
 > > product_name.
 > 
 > I don't understand.
 > 
 > Why is it a hack to encode the keyboard model in the product name?
 > When the keyboard is part of the product and there's two different
 > keyboards (not just mechanically, but with different keymaps)
 > why isn't it 2 product models?

we have three laptop models, and something like 20 different
keyboards.  whether or not they all need different keymaps (they
don't), i think you can see why we might not necessarily encode any
of them as different models.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf@laptop.org