On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > it shouldn't be easy to
>  > accidentally activate by English keyboard users.
>  >
>  >
>  > --
>  > Shawn Walker
>  >
>
>  Yes, that happens to me "a lot", too.  Come to think about it, I noticed 
> many keyboards I saw in China and Taiwan have the "function" key, instead of 
> the Control key, at the lower left corner; & it's almost impossible to 
> incidentally activate the IM (thus, no problem for them, but big problem for 
> us).
>
>  Unless we are willing to mail-order those keyboards, perhaps this gives us a 
> good incentive to re-think the Ctrl-space default?

I'm not ready to say that's the solution yet. There could just be a
subtle bug or maybe a small tweak to the delay before it activates.

The other solution might be to have the input manager disabled by
default for English speakers since I know many users won't use it at
all.

-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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