Add colemak keyboard layout

[Robert Alm Nilsson]

Hi, I use the colemak keyboard layout but I'm not able to find a
"colemak" option in the installer where you select keyboard layout.
Currently every time I install Debian (which happens pretty often
because I love this operating system) I have to use another keyboard
layout during the installation and then set XKBVARIANT="colemak" in
/etc/default/keyboard after the installation. It would be awesome
to be able to use colemak from the start. I hope we can add that as
an option.

[Holger Wansing]

Hi Robert,

I fear, that the installer cannot support every existing cornercase,
as the Colemak layout is also a cornercase.

I hope, that others in the team will correct me, if I'm wrong.


Regards
Holger


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[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Holger Wansing, le sam. 24 sept. 2022 20:57:09 +0200, a ecrit:

> Hi Robert,
>
> Am 24. September 2022 19:26:25 MESZ schrieb Robert Alm Nilsson <rob...@robalni.org>:
> >Hi, I use the colemak keyboard layout but I'm not able to find a
> >"colemak" option in the installer where you select keyboard layout.
> >Currently every time I install Debian (which happens pretty often
> >because I love this operating system) I have to use another keyboard
> >layout during the installation and then set XKBVARIANT="colemak" in
> >/etc/default/keyboard after the installation. It would be awesome
> >to be able to use colemak from the start. I hope we can add that as
> >an option.
>
> I fear, that the installer cannot support every existing cornercase,
> as the Colemak layout is also a cornercase.

As a complement: please read

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698322

for an existing discussion about it, indeed.

Samuel