[Bug 290473] Re: Poor keyboard support: Macbook Belgian Azerty

[sander]

Today I installed 10.10 using netinstall and this bug is not fixed. Macbook keyboards are not configured in a userfriendly way:
1) The keyboard detection says I have a generic keyboard with 105 and a French alternative layout. This is wrong as I have a Belgian Macbook keyboard!
2) In the keyboard settings dialog of Gnome, I cannot select a "Belgian Macintosh" layout. I guess a simple symlink to the French Macintosh layout is sufficient to fix this usability issue.
3) When selecting "Macbook/Macbook Pro" or "Macbook/Macbook Pro (Intl)" as keyboard model, I get an XKB error as reported before. I had to choose "Apple laptop" to get it working. This bug should be fixed too.
4) The Macbook keyboard has only 1 Alt key on the left. However, in the options dialog, Ubuntu does not know there is no right Alt key because the defaults for "Layout switching" and "Third level choosers" require the right Alt key!! This definitely should be fixed because average people cannot fix this! (guide to fix this on a Swedish Macbook keyboard: http://javahacker.com/?p=189 )

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Expired => New

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Poor keyboard support: Macbook Belgian Azerty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290473
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