On 28 June 2012 02:51, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vign...@gmail.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?
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