Hi Pete, 2012.04.01 22:25, Pete Goodeve wrote:
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:21:04PM -0500, Joseph Groover wrote:IMHO, on first-boot, Haiku should come up with a location dialogue, select your part in the world, and we should then set the default settings most likely to be in that area. If I click on the Central Time Zone area in the U.S., Haiku should default to "US - Qwerty." If I click on an area in Europe or Asia, we should default to that keyboard - in both cases in a visible manner... I searched many times for a US or qwerty keymap.. only to now find someone named it "American" quite annoying ;-)
It's indeed an uncommon name. Should someone file a ticket to rename American layouts?
Turns out that the "American" map also has unexpected behaviour... There are no default Opt symbols! I've grown used to having things like the '£' sign available, but those vanish if I select American. OTOH, with that I get two Ctrls, two Cmds, and two Opts, in places that correspond to what I see on the physical K/B. If I start from "US International", there is no way that I can drag things around to get a similar arrangement. (The User Guide says that a left-click-drag should copy -- rather than swapping -- a key, but that doesn't happen.) I suppose I could go the dump, edit, and reload route as Rimas suggests, but a user shouldn't need to do all that to get a friendly map.
Like I said, you can also open the Modifier keys dialog and choose the modifier keys there (assuming the dialog is not a new feature, you'll find it in the Keymap's menu).
Rimas