[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4436] german keyboard: default to variant with enabled deadkeys instead of "nodeadkeys variant" ( mga#3791)

Mon Jul 30 14:23:52 CEST 2012

On 28 June 2012 02:51, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>>> german keyboard: default to variant with enabled deadkeys instead
+>>>> of"nodeadkeys variant"  (mga#3791)
+>>>
+>>> Oups, why that?
+>>> As far as I'm concerned no deadkeys is the default for German users and
+>>> that's good!
+>>>
+>>> Any reasons for this change?
+>>
+>> Call it "Competitive analysis" if you want. Keyboards comes with those
+>> little keys that are meant to produce accented characters in
+>> combination with regular letters, and this how it works on Windows,
+>> the platform most users will migrate from, and also on Mac OS X.
+>>
+>> Regular users don't have any use of stand-alone-accent-characters. And
+>> even with deadkeys it is easy to produce the standalone accent by just
+>> pressing the key twice (so you can get backticks easily).
+>> If you're a programmer and are using a nodeadkeys variant for that
+>> reason, you're not the target population of a suggested default. (If
+>> you know what is meant with "deadkeys" and "nodeadkeys", you're not in
+>> target of that dialog, and have the knowledge to not accept the
+>> default, but choose the nodeadkeys variant that is listed right next
+>> to the regular variant).
+>>
+>> The variant with deadkeys is called "German" without any addition for
+>> a reason. If nodeadkeys were the expected/more common choice, then it
+>> would be "German (international)" or "German (deadkeys)", like it is
+>> the case for the US-variants.
+>
+> So Olivier, do you agree with that change or not?
+
+Ping?
+