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

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:36:04 +0200

On 29/03/2012 21:29, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2012.03.29 21:35, John Scipione rašė:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Rimas Kudelis<rq@xxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> 2012.03.29 11:48, John Scipione rašė:
>>>
>>>> I have also updated the US-International Keymap with new keys. I moved
>>>> the current option settings to right option and filed out the right
>>>> option based on the keys produced in Mac OS X (with a little BeOS 5
>>>> thrown in).
>>> First of all, with AltGr layer available, I don't think Option layer is
>>> needed.
>> I believe that it is for some keymaps like French but François Revol
>> can chime in and correct me if I'm wrong.

It is.
Sorry but I didn't follow the thread much.

> There's a line somewhere between "this is really powerful" and "it's
> just complicating things with no benefit". I tend to think that adding
> more layers crosses that line, although I'm probably a bit biased
> because for the languages I use, two modifiers (Shift and AltGr) are
> enough. I just don't think an average user would benefit from having 6
> or 8 layers in her keyboard to enter accented characters. :) That's what
> dead keys are for.

Well, if you want to implement the full Bépo keymap correctly you'll
probably need even more layers, like 20 :D
cf.
http://bepo.fr/wiki/Touches_mortes


François.

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