[maemo-developers] Wish list

[From: Jiri Benc]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:43:28 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> I have one wish: i18n support done right not like it is done now.
> 
> To be more detailed:
> 
> 1. Allow user to add new hardware keyboard layout into preferences.
> 2. Allow user to add new virtual keyboard layout into preferences.

Yes, please. This wasn't easy on OS2007, but it was a piece of cake
compared to OS2008.

> 3. Use of strftime() for date/time names instead of translating names
>    (examples: os2008 clock, date widget)

Fortunately, posix-locales package is open source, so this is IMHO not a big
issue.

> With os2008 I am unable to create Polish layouts for keyboards just 
> because official way is "we support only those few languages which we 
> provide with image and do not care does user can or not add others".
> 
> To provide Polish keyboard I now have to select one of system provided 
> ones and replace it with own version. I just hope that I will not have to 
> provide "polish-hardware-keyboard-instead-of-italian" 
> and "polish-hardware-keyboard-instead-of-russian" style named packages.

Or use ukeyboard [1]. Feel free to contribute Polish layout :-)

 Jiri

[1] http://upir.cz/maemo/keyboards


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