Bug#477197: Dead ~

2008-04-23 Thread Tako Schotanus
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> (I dislike the current momentum of "me too" about this bug. I suspect
> something popped into a -user mailing list of Spanish users but, hey
> ladies and gentlment, I think the maintainers of this package got the
> point. Spanish users don't like the behaviour change for AltGr+4, no
> need to make a metoo-contest)


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>
> > Dunno, maybe it would be possible to have two diferent key maps?
> > One where only the ´ is dead while all others aren't and one that
> conforms
> > to what is "the norm" on other sytems?
>
> I sincerely hope that xkb maintainers will *never* make the mistake
> that has been done with console keymaps where dozens of various funky
> keymaps are floating all around, adding a lot to confusion.
>
>
Sorry, I was talking more about the "layout variant", we can already choose
between "basic", "sundeadkeys", "nodeadkeys" etc. So there could be two
variants for the two different situations described in this bug report.
Personally I would rather use the "nodeadkeys" if it wasn't for the fact
that the ´ and ¨ are needed a lot in spanish. But I hate it that the ^ , `
and ~ are dead as well.

On the other hand if somebody can tell me how to add/make one of those
variants myself I'll just make my personalized variant ;)


Bug#477197: Dead ~

2008-04-22 Thread Tako Schotanus
I don't like the dead tilde either because it really is useless in spanish.
But if we change it we should maybe think about the dead ^ as well?
Because it's just as useless, it's never used in spanish but quite a bit in
programming/regular expressions etc
And if we're busy anyway, why not change the dead back quote? (`)
Spanish does not use them either, only the forward quote.

Dunno, maybe it would be possible to have two diferent key maps?
One where only the ´ is dead while all others aren't and one that conforms
to what is "the norm" on other sytems?