On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:33, Josef Assad <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:14:16PM +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote: >> >> Tap the ~, press space and then join the ranks of people upset by the >> broken, unobvious, unintuitive and just plain crazy behaviour of the >> character palette. > > I can see the point when the special character is necessary as a > modifier to a regular character for languages that need them. Absolutely. I'm not arguing that there doesn't need to be a way of composing characters... > If there's a more straightforward way to accomodate people who need ñ, > ô, ü, etc. then I can't think of it. ...what I'm arguing is that it doesn't make sense for it to look and (from a button point-of-view) feel similarly to the other buttons in the palette; it doesn't make sense for it to be the third row (when rows 1, 2 and 4 act the same) and that it's unobvious even for people who are *used* to composing characters. > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5314 Ta. -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@xxxxxxxx | http://www.bleb.org/ _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
