On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 23:22 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 12:21 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > You can avoid the special Compose key by an appropriate keyboard > > selection that supports dead keys. I use UK International so to type > á > > I hit ' and a. Similarly ñ is ~ and n, and so on. This is under KDE > > but I assume the same thing would work with Gnome. > > I'd tried that in the past, but then it made it horrible to type in > normal punctuation. Commas, apostrophes, etc., had to be typed twice, > to get them to appear. I use them, a lot, and having to do that was > horrid. I have a little layout button in the KDE panel that can easily switch dead keys on and off. IOW the keyboard is essentially modal. You can also define a key combo to do the same thing. I much prefer this to the Compose key method as I frequently type long pieces of text in Spanish and having to hit the Compose key all the time gets old really fast. I'm not unaware of the double-key issue (I even have to use it when typing my own name :-) but I've just become used to it. In fact I type dead-key followed by spacebar to get the desired effect, which is really easy. > It's about damn time that a proper international keyboard was brought > out, to supersede querty. One where all the usual accents, and extra > punctuation, are on their keys (such as where the, usually, useless F > keys are). Can't see that happening any time soon. When you've tried to use a European (non-English) keyboard and can't find @ or \ or $ (random examples only) you see how complex this could be. Look at the keyboards for some Asian languages. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
