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

[Thierry Vignaud]

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?

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