On 10 May 2012 00:21, Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+mag...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> german keyboard: default to variant with enabled deadkeys instead >>> of"nodeadkeys variant" (mga#3791) >> >> Oups, why that? >> As far as I'm concerned no deadkeys is the default for German users and >> that's good! >> >> Any reasons for this change? > > Call it "Competitive analysis" if you want. Keyboards comes with those > little keys that are meant to produce accented characters in > combination with regular letters, and this how it works on Windows, > the platform most users will migrate from, and also on Mac OS X. > > Regular users don't have any use of stand-alone-accent-characters. And > even with deadkeys it is easy to produce the standalone accent by just > pressing the key twice (so you can get backticks easily). > If you're a programmer and are using a nodeadkeys variant for that > reason, you're not the target population of a suggested default. (If > you know what is meant with "deadkeys" and "nodeadkeys", you're not in > target of that dialog, and have the knowledge to not accept the > default, but choose the nodeadkeys variant that is listed right next > to the regular variant). > > The variant with deadkeys is called "German" without any addition for > a reason. If nodeadkeys were the expected/more common choice, then it > would be "German (international)" or "German (deadkeys)", like it is > the case for the US-variants.
So Olivier, do you agree with that change or not?