GNU bug report logs - #40273
installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:43:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
To: 40273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:39:50 +0200

Hey,

> * Guile-newt functions "newt-set-help-callback" and
>   "add-component-callback" seem to be tripping over each other and I'm
>   having a hard time trying to understand why.

Ok I found out why, it was the GC that was collecting the callback
pointers. I fixed it in Guile-newt.

Now I pushed a 'wip-installer-help' branch that implement this
mechanism. I'm now able to switch the installer keyboard layout from any
step.

WDYT?

Mathieu
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