[haiku-development] Re: AltGr Key, key_map, and the US-International Keyboard

  • From: Rimas Kudelis <rq@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:25:39 +0300

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


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