sean
Don't know if this has been mentioned before in the conversation but many keyboards already have full mappings provided which the user can select by running gnome-keyboard-properties. Adding additional types for selection would be helpful.
Now I'm amazed. I stuggled to find the right mappings and put them into an xmodmap file - only to find that there was a perfectly good 'keyboard model' hidden in gnome-keyboard-properties. (Thanks Sean!)
I think there are two problems here.
1. the name wasn't intuitive enough: "Laptop/notebook Dell Inspiron 6xxx/8xxx". I might have had a chance if the list was presented as a hierarchy, or if it was under Dell or Inspiron.
2. it's too easy to choose a working (but incorrect) key model when installing.
Is this deserving of a bugzilla entry?
-Cam