On Sunday 28 June 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Frans Pop, le Sun 28 Jun 2009 13:00:19 +0200, a ?crit : > > BTW, I would expect there are people in NL using Dvorak, but it's not > > being offered as a choice there... > > Because xkb doesn't have that layout.
Do you mean that xkb has a _separate_ layout for "Netherlands - American English"? That is... insane. In that case there really _should_ be a "Netherlands - Dvorak" layout as well. And shouldn't also a "Netherlands - Sun American English" be offered besides the existing "Netherlands - Sun dead keys" one? (I actually have a Sun Type 5 keyboard with us layout which originally came from some Dutch educational or research institute and I really do NOT want dead keys with that.) And... Do you see the problem here? The country-based hierarchy used by upstream is fundamentally broken and trying to patch it by selectively adding some non-existing variants like "Netherlands - American English" does nothing to solve that. What could possibly work is some ability to define cheap symlinks, but duplicating entire layouts really is insane (IMHO). > > > > 5) Dutch people very much *do* still type accented characters. > > > > > > ERrr, really? That's not what dutch people I've talked with told > > > me. Anyway, that's not the question at stake. > > > > See these pages from a Dutch on-line newspaper: > > http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/4270616/__Strengere_controle_op_pr > >ive-gebruik_zakenauto__.html?p=40,1 > > http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/4270520/__Belgisch_pardon_voor_ill > >egalen__.html?p=40,2 > > That's newspaper, not everyday writing. So newspaper people are not allowed to use Debian? Or closer to home: am I not allowed to have a decent keyboard layout as I do prefer to properly use accents? > > I'll believe you if people say they don't bother in informal emails > > or SMS, but ask them if they also don't bother when writing an > > application for a job... > > They told me rather for writing their PhD. And that gets accepted? /me cries... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
