Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 12:36 -0600, Matthew Woehlke a écrit :
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 12:02 -0600, Matthew Woehlke a écrit :
And those would be what buttons again?
Those would be whatever the maintainer of your xkb layout wants them to be. Adding this stuff to an xkb layout is not rocket science and has been possible for a long time.
So one of they keys on my keyboard should do something other than what I expect?
Bzzt. On an average keyboard, about 50% of the alt-ed space is not marked and let to the implementators discretion. Without going into Canadian six-level key complexity, four-level xkb layouts are the norm and I dare you to find a keyboard where all four levels are marked.
Then you're not writing human text, you're writing computer code. Huh?
No efforts are expended by console maintainers to make it keep up with the curreent demands of human text. Its target is “debugging things gone wrong” ¹
¹ “I know the discussions I've had with distributions on these subjects they are thinking X is the user interface full stop, except for debug/things gone wrong.” (Alan Cox, 2008-12-01).