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

  • From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:33:59 +0200

Le Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:30:47 +0200, Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx> a écrit:
AFAIR it is not so fine in case you select, for example, Russian locale during installing Haiku. That forces Russian keymap as default one and make impossible to use Terminal for any usual purposes (for example to run installoptionalpackages -i KeymapSwitcher). So newcomer is faced with the requirement to solve puzzle "How to change this damned keymap?!". And we have lot of experience helping them with Alpha 3 and this made very bad impression about Haiku for many peoples. In our opinion the keymap must be either hard-coded to Latin-based one or be subject of localization at all.
They are not related at all in the installer. You select a locale AND a keymap there. The KeymapSwitcher could be made part of the default install, like we have japanese input methods and fonts. I don't see a problem with that.
Is the trick of using caps lock to get latin chars still used somewhere ? Maybe our keymaps should support that directly ? 

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Adrien.

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