On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:14:42 +0100 Cam camilo@mesias.co.uk wrote:
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.
- 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.
- it's too easy to choose a working (but incorrect) key model when
installing.
Is this deserving of a bugzilla entry?
An RFE maybe, although maybe it is more appropriate upstream? I honestly don't know.
I have run into the problem as well, not knowing which of 10 models actually matched the keyboard in front of me. Not sure how to make it easier unless each and every keyboard model can be listed explicitly somehow.
The cat's meow would be to have pictures of each keyboard too; would that be legal?
Sean