Bug 144947

Summary:	media-gfx/inkscape-0.44: German keyboard, keys mapped incorrectly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	lxg <mail2lx>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Graphics Project <graphics+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	minor	CC:	rockoo, zypher
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description lxg 2006-08-24 02:46:08 UTC

I noticed a small, yet annoying bugs with inkscape:

1. On a German keyboard, the Y and the Z key are exchanged (Hence the layout is named QWERTZ instead of QWERTY). The layout is normally handled fine by console or X11. But strangely, in inkscape they are changed back again. So each time I want to undo something with Ctrl+Z, I must actually press Ctrl+Y. This is quite confusing, obviously.

# emerge -pv inkscape
[ebuild   R   ] media-gfx/inkscape-0.44  USE="gnome plugin spell -bonobo -boost -debug -doc -inkjar -lcms -mmx" 6,353 kB

Comment 1 Daniel Webert 2007-02-06 03:13:24 UTC

plz check if u have the 'Option "XkbLayout" "de"' in ur /etc/X11/xorg.conf right ...

Comment 2 lxg 2007-02-06 09:10:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> plz check if u have the 'Option "XkbLayout" "de"' in ur /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> right ...

Yes it is. And, to clarify once again, the mapping is correct in all other Gnome and KDE applications.

Comment 3 lxg 2007-02-06 17:03:28 UTC

I was able to fix the bug for me: In /usr/share/inkscape/keys/default.xml, ll. 226-234, I exchanged the "y"s/"Y"s with "y"s/"Z"s and vice versa. Now the shortcuts work as expected.

The question is now if other German users have the same problem. I'm very sure my locale settings are correct, I also have the LINGUAS in make.conf set correctly.

By the way, thanks for the quick ebuilding of inkscape 0.45. :)

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-28 22:34:14 UTC

Try w/ >=0.45.1 please.