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

Thu May 10 12:45:40 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
+>
+
+Actually belgian keyboards seem to have a similar issue, or so it seems...
+I wonder if anyone knows if this could get fixed for belgian keyb's too
+
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