Hi all,

off-late i was testing the translated keyboard shortcuts that we have
included in our translations and stumbled upon the following results:

1. In the FC2 bn locale...if the bn keyboard is selected either directly
with setxkbmap or through gnome-keyboard-properties dialogbox, then some
of the shortcuts are not working..especially the ctrl+<key> combos. one
of the weirdest eg. wud be that when the bn kbd(with inscript layout) is
selected then commonly used shortcuts like ctrl+c and ctrl+p etc. are
not functioning but ctrl+z is, possibly bcoz the 'Z' key is not alloted
to any bn character in the inscript layout.


2.at times the shrtcuts require 2 keys to obtain the alphabet in
addition to the shift/ctrl/alt (or combos thereof) keys. for eg. when a
"pha" or "Tha" is to be used.

3. Another point that is known to all of us is the case of duplication
in the shortcuts and these not only look horrible, but end up completely
useless.

4. For FC3, the IIIMF input method is going to be used. i tried testing
with an eval version of gedit with IIIMF enabled and found that the
translated hot-keys DO NOT work for either en or bn keyboard. hence if
IIIMF is the standard for FC3, then these translated shortcuts are as
good as redundant.

As an experiment..i changed the top-level menu items File (_F), Edit
(_E), View (_V) etc. as used by quite a few teams (eg.Chinese team), for
the gedit file, made the .mo and ran the application.

The english shortcuts are working for both the en and bn keyboard
layouts. which roughly means that these shortcuts will run irrespective
of what the input language layout is.

perhaps this issue needs to be seriously thot over..for the sake of
avoiding any further complications.

thanks
Runa




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