Em 30/11/2012 11:43, thraex escreveu: > I'd say separate functionality and appearance, the latter should > follow the former. Right now, there are three free slots if I am not > mistaken. This makes room for Colemak and Bépo, the last slot could be > simply "Next Page", which could also be enabled with Page Up (previous > screen, if any) and Page Down keys (next screen, if any; but no need > to waste screen space to document that though. -- By the way, is it > possible to enter the Cherokee syllabary with a good old keyboard?). Yes, it is. :) I have created a codepage with the cherokee syllabary. That was the hardest part — drawing each character, pixel by pixel, three times (8×8, 8×14, 8×16) — but I have fun doing that. :)
For the time being, only the regular US keyboard is able to use it. Should anyone else want to type cherokee, just let me know and I'll prepare a particular, enhanced variation of his/her keyboard layout. (Should I notice that there are more people using the same keyboard, making the same request, I shall include that layout into the official FreeDOS keyboard layout pack.) By the way, turkish keyboards, under FreeDOS, can also use codepage 3846, which is a slight variation of cp437, i.e. it includes all those mixed linedraw characters, mathematical characters, etc.. I picked that number because that was the only one I found on the web, browsing printers' PDF files. If there's a more common, 3-digit number for that, I would like to know (thanks in advance). >> The keyboard layout menu is beautiful on the first screen but, as you >> select "More...", the next screen does not receive the same refinement. >> Again — if there's someone out there reading fd-devel which could work >> on that, please either show yourself here or contact me at hperon -at- >> terra.com.br. > As for the appearance, IMHO the same colour palette than the previous > screen (especially the blue background) could make sense. The one thing > I had spontaneously done on that additional layouts screen was to try to > select the layout with the cursor keys. If devs have enough time, that > could possibly be a bonus addition. > > > I'll take this opportunity to mention a couple of trivial typos one > encounters on the first installation screen: > > Boot from harddisk > Explanatory text which appears at the bottom of the screen: "Starts your > installed regularly used operating system from harddisk" > Note that the final period is missing. > > Boot from diskette > Explanatory text: "Startup from system bootdisk if you still have a > floppydrive and diskettes" > Note that the final period is missing here, too. Also, IIRC, "Startup" > should be "Start up" and "floppydrive" should be "floppy drive" in two > words. > > (Sorry if that sounds pedantic, this not my intention at all, it's just > all I can contribute). Yes, yes, sure! :) I just hope that there's someone out there reading all that... :) >> Thank you for the tip on the Bépo layout; actually, I had already >> learned about it. I just didn't work on that yet. It's a very impressive >> layout, covering many languages written with the latin script. It seems >> that there's even support for vietnamese. There's no support for african >> languages on it, but I have already provided layouts for those languages >> anyway. > Aman hocam! How many languages do you speak? As for me, if I could > finally manage to learn... Python, that would be great, but hey. I speak portuguese and english. I've been studying languages since I was a kid, just for fun (I have a great time doing that) but I cannot say that I'm proficient on anything but portuguese. As a matter of fact, I don't rely on myself even to see 100% of an american movie without picking at the subtitles now and then... :) I have just downloaded a course on esperanto. Interesting language. On what concerns reading/writing, I'm far more confortable. Turkish, for instance, I practice whenever I'm playing backgammon on the Internet. (It seems that you, turkish people, learn to play it in the nursery!! You're great players!) Regards, Henrique ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: TUNE You got it built. Now make it sing. Tune shows you how. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
