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authorMichael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>2014-11-12 08:35:44 +1000
committerPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2014-11-12 08:37:05 +1000
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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51307 Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
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X Keyboard Extension
--------------------
-The X Keyboard Extension essentially replaces the core protocol definition
-of the keyboard. The extension makes it possible to clearly and explicitly
-specify most aspects of keyboard behaviour on a per-key basis and to more
-closely track the logical and physical state of the keyboard. It also
-includes a number of keyboard controls designed to make keyboards more
-accessible to people with physical impairments.
+The X Keyboard (XKB) Extension essentially replaces the core protocol
+definition of a keyboard. The extension makes it possible to specify
+clearly and explicitly most aspects of keyboard behaviour on a per-key
+basis, and to track more closely the logical and physical state of a
+keyboard. It also includes a number of keyboard controls designed to
+make keyboards more accessible to people with physical impairments.
-There are five types of components in the server database corresponding to
-five xkb symbolic names (symbols, geometry, keycodes, compat, and types)
-which determine the keyboard behaviour. These five components can be
-combined into a resulting keyboard mapping using the 'rules' component.
+There are five components that define a complete keyboard mapping:
+symbols, geometry, keycodes, compat, and types; these five components
+can be combined together using the 'rules' component of the database
+provided by this project, xkeyboard-config.
-The complete specification can be found in:
- http://www.x.org/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.pdf
+The complete specification for the XKB Extension can be found here:
-For XKB configuration information, see the 'docs/README.config' file.
+ http://xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf
-For information on how to further enhance XKB configuration, see the
-'docs/README.enhancing' file.
+xkeyboard-config
+----------------
-For information on how to replace an existing XKB configuration database
-with XKeyboardConfig, see the 'docs/HOWTO.transition' file.
+This project provides a consistent, well-structured, frequently
+released, open source database of keyboard configuration data. The
+project is targeted to XKB-based systems.
+
+For XKB configuration information, see:
+
+ docs/README.config
+
+For information on how to enhance the database itself, see:
+
+ docs/README.enhancing
+
+For information on how to replace an older XKB configuration database
+with the one provided by this project, see:
+
+ docs/HOWTO.transition
+
+For guidelines to making contributions to this project, see:
-Contribution guidelines are described on:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Rules
+
+To submit bug reports (and patches), please use the bugzilla system:
+
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config