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Keyboards comes with those +</I>>>><i> little keys that are meant to produce accented characters in +</I>>>><i> combination with regular letters, and this how it works on Windows, +</I>>>><i> the platform most users will migrate from, and also on Mac OS X. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Regular users don't have any use of stand-alone-accent-characters. And +</I>>>><i> even with deadkeys it is easy to produce the standalone accent by just +</I>>>><i> pressing the key twice (so you can get backticks easily). +</I>>>><i> If you're a programmer and are using a nodeadkeys variant for that +</I>>>><i> reason, you're not the target population of a suggested default. (If +</I>>>><i> you know what is meant with "deadkeys" and "nodeadkeys", you're not in +</I>>>><i> target of that dialog, and have the knowledge to not accept the +</I>>>><i> default, but choose the nodeadkeys variant that is listed right next +</I>>>><i> to the regular variant). +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> The variant with deadkeys is called "German" without any addition for +</I>>>><i> a reason. If nodeadkeys were the expected/more common choice, then it +</I>>>><i> would be "German (international)" or "German (deadkeys)", like it is +</I>>>><i> the case for the US-variants. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> So Olivier, do you agree with that change or not? +</I> +It may be logical but German users have been taught to use +"nodeadkeys" for ages. Changing this now just because of semantics +does not seem to be a wise move (I always use "German"). But OTOH it +is not such a big thing. It will cause the usual number of questions +in the forums ("MAG3 breaks my keyboard!") but this will vanish over +the years. :) + +-- +wobo +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="017803.html">[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4436] german keyboard: default to variant with enabled deadkeys instead of "nodeadkeys variant" ( mga#3791) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="017806.html">[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4436] german keyboard: default to variant with enabled deadkeys instead of "nodeadkeys variant" ( mga#3791) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#17804">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#17804">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#17804">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#17804">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |