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

Thu May 10 00:21:46 CEST 2012

Hi Oliver, *,
+
+On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Oliver Burger
+<oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> Am 09.05.2012 23:48, schrieb root at mageia.org:
+>>
+>>      Log Message
+>>
+>> 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.
+
+ciao
+Christian
+