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Godiard at 19:33, 5 November 2013

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	== How To Test ==		== How To Test ==
	* Layout configuration can be tested by enabling new layouts and typing inside Activities, etc (Write and Browse should provide ideal test cases)		{{:{{PAGENAME}}/Testing}}
	* Model selection needs access to different types of keyboard hardware. Choose the exact vendor and model of your keyboard and test if all keys work as expected.

	== User Experience ==		== User Experience ==
	Users will see a new section inside the control panel marked as "Keyboards".		Users will see a new section inside the control panel marked as "Keyboards".

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	* Targeted release: 0.86		* Targeted release: 0.86
	* Last updated: ~~13th July~~, 2009		* Last updated: 19th August, 2009
	* Percentage of completion: 75%		* Percentage of completion: 100%

	== Detailed Description ==		== Detailed Description ==

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= Keyboard Control Panel Section =

== Summary ==
Keyboard layout and model configuration support in the Control Panel

== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:SayaminduDasgupta| Sayamindu Dasgupta]]
* Email: <sayamindu@gmail.com>

== Current status ==
* Targeted release: 0.86
* Last updated: 13th July, 2009
* Percentage of completion: 75%

== Detailed Description ==
The control panel extension will allow users to choose and modify their keyboard model and layout settings graphically without going into XKB internals. Ticket [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/407 407] provides some more information on the issue (including a discussion on what options to expose).

== Benefit to Sugar ==
* Users in multilingual environment will find it easy to use the layout for their own language in Sugar
* Users using somewhat different keyboards (eg: the one shipped with the Classmate PC) will be able to choose their keyboard model easily from the control panel
* Some (OLPC) deployments have been asking for a way to permanently change the keyboard layout - this will be only possible if Sugar decides to manage the keyboard layouts on its own, which this feature would provide.

== Scope ==
* Implemented as a Control Panel extension using bindings for libxklavier, a high-level library for manipulating XKB settings
* The Sugar startup code will be affected to enable the keyboard layouts during startup

== How To Test ==
* Layout configuration can be tested by enabling new layouts and typing inside Activities, etc (Write and Browse should provide ideal test cases)
* Model selection needs access to different types of keyboard hardware. Choose the exact vendor and model of your keyboard and test if all keys work as expected.

== User Experience ==
Users will see a new section inside the control panel marked as "Keyboards".

== Dependencies ==
* libxklavier (this is shipped by all major distributions since it is used by GNOME (and probably KDE as well) for keyboard configuration.
* libxklavier-python (this is a new binding, and work on it has been completed (ie: it is release worthy)). This needs to be packaged for various distributions. Also python-xklavier depends on the latest bleeding edge version of libxklavier. However, this version of libxklavier has been [http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-devel-list@gnome.org/msg16500.html proposed] for GNOME 2.28, so I expect version 4.x of libxklavier to be in all distributions when we ship 0.86.

== Contingency Plan ==
None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

== Documentation ==
Ticket [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/407 407]

== Release Notes ==
The keyboard configuration section in the control panel lets user graphically change the layout settings of the keyboard, and also lets users choose the keyboard model that they have.

== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this feature]] 

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