On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 02:14 +0200, didier . wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What are they used for?
>
> It's an issue when you have multiple keyboard definitions.
>
> For example with gedit if you have an english and a french keyboard
> (ie two xkb groups) CRTL+Q doesn't work because the logic catches the
> a <--> q mapping first an returns the CTRL+A binding.
There is extensive discussion of this on a bugzilla bug; I don't know
the number off hand. You should be able to find it pretty easily.
Very short answer:
- This behavior is desired and very useful for a long list of languages
where *ALL USERS* have two keymaps, one for Latin and one the
language's scripts. This includes: Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew.
It just isn't acceptable to have to switch to the other keyboard
layout to use the menus, or to use editing hotkeys.
- Yes, it causes some problems for the small group of people who
manually configure their keyboard to have two Latin layouts. If
someone wants to create a fix for that *without breaking the
behavior where needed* that would be a great contribution.
I don't quite know how that fix would work; maybe you could try
to guess the script of each keyboard layout from the keys in it.
- Owen
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