[openbeos] Re: Keymapping
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:13:29 +0100
Selon Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2004-01-17 at 19:47:53 [+0100], François Revol wrote:
> > > Maybe the pref should have a"scratch drag" area to allow to drag
> > > keys temporarily.
> > Definitely! It should also be possible to lock the modifier keys, so
> > that one
> > can conveniently drag and drop strings onto the keys without needing
> > to press
> > the modifiers keys on the keyboard at the same time. Moreover a
> > Unicode table
> > should be displayed (maybe only as advanced option) -- very useful
> > when one
> > doesn't know how to produce a character with the current keymap and
> > would
> > otherwise need to go hunting for it in texts.
>
> Sounds very nice! Although I wouldn't mind the Unicode table to be in a
> separate application (as long as drag&drop works).
> In any way, I think this would be a very appropriate system delivered
> application.
>
Taken that there are already applications that do that...
usually Font listing apps let you drag the glyphs.
Like FontInspector.
François.
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