???????? Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:46:48 +0300, Greg Metcalfe <gmetcalfe at centurytel.net>:
> Systems settings help is a locator service, at best. I'm glad the > compose key location seems to have stabilized from F13 onwards, save > that in F16, it's defined by default as both left and right Win keys. I > used to define it as just the left Win key. > > Fine. Whatever. > > But could you provide some doc on how to use the thing? There's nothing > in kwrite or kate doc, and nothing in the settings 'help'. In Windows, > this is all numeric, and impossible to remember for most people. X/KDE > is a vastly better system. > > /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose > is not the whole story. I know I used to be able to get a micron symbol, > because I read a doc where I used it. I can't find it again. Slash u, or > u slash doesn't work, no matter the case. Nor could I find any reference > to it in that /usr/share/X11 doc. It could be in there, but it's not > really searchable. 'Micron' came up empty, and there are innumerable > 'u's. The file is 5359 lines! > > Searching the KDE online docs, I get four hits. None of them relevant. > The only help available is random returns from Google--much of it dated. > A grep through the filesystem turned up mostly Gnome docs. Which I > supose I would have to go through, if I wanted it badly enough to waste > hours in the chase. > > If a 'micron' compose key sequence still exists, it might as well not. > Nobody can discover how to access it! Please, please, PLEASE don't use > this as an argument for yet more dumbing-down of the interface, and just > elliminate the feature. The more valuable, though harder, software > engineering path is to stabilize and document the capability. > > I'm not going to learn C++ and the Qt libs to help you with this--I'm > busy too. I just spent 12 hours writing bash, Python, and Go. But I'm > willing to help with testing and doc writing. Hi, There is a good tutorial on this topic on UserBase [1]. Please follow it (tested here, Mageia 2, KDE 4.8.2, works). You can assign for micron any combination that is convenient for you. Hope this helps. Best regards, Yuri [1] http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey
