[rant] keeping policy in HAL

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:11:46PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Apriori, there is no sensible default keyboard layout.
> > 
> > Yes, there is, and it's called US.  This isn't being Anglo-centric or
> 
> Which US layout - there are several and then you get all the variants
> with extra funny buttons for internet etc ?

It does not matter.  At all.

> > anything, and I'm not going to argue the point.  Your analogy about
> > Russian versions of Windows holds true still: Russian distributions can
> > change the default to ru.  Everyone's a winner.
> 
> The keyboard default can be deduced from the locale default in most cases
> so the problem can be solved far more elegantly than praying the user is
> in one particularly random mid sized country.


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