Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| > Intl (lyx keymaps) and the transmanager.
| > I'd like to get rid of these. They were added ages ago to alleviate
| > problems with X,xforms and the desktopsystems we had then (the
| > non-existing ones). It is not LyX's job to have keymaps, keyboard
| > maps and the like. Even
| > dead keys is supported through the Intl/transmanager system.
| > I'd like to rip this out instead of redoing any of this in a unicode
| > context. The frontend handles keyboard input and gives something we
| > can use in the core.
| > I know that this mean removing features, but I doubt that many people
| > has even thought about that feature for a long time.
| > So imho, keyboard maps, keymaps and the like should disapear, the
| > frontend/windowing system should handle composing chars and dead-keys.
| > Other opinions on this?
|
|
| I'd like to wear the Lars hat for a moment here ;-)
|
| How dare you think about removing a feature before making sure similar
| functionalities would be possible with unicode?
All desktops I know of support this if you setup the correct keyboard
and/or locale.
| Can't you encapsulate your new code with #if, #endif and let the old
| running code stay in parallel?
Seems you missed the reason for the #if.
| Quite funny this hat :-)
If only you put it on the right way.
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Lgb
