On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:37:16PM +0100, Adriaan van Nijendaal wrote: > A few years ago, I proposed to add a 'new' international keyboard > layout: altgr-intl, which hides dead keys behind the right Alt key (aka > AltGr). It is based on the International Keyboard layout, which in turn > follows an example set by a company in Redmond. The map was accepted and > is now used by quite a few people who use a standard US keyboard to type > multiple languages. They type á (a-acute) with altgr-a. > > Some people (and myself) would like to have more accented letters > readily available through the altgr modifier. When Microsoft defined the > international keyboard, they must have been thinking of a certain set of > languages (including Icelandic?!?). The resulting keyboard does not suit > all languages well (and it never will). But one could think of maps that > would suit a few languages a little better. > > For French (and Portugese and Italian), à (agrave) would be handy (about > 0.5% frequency in those languages). For Portugese, ã (atilde) would be > nice (0.7%). Currently, ã is only available through a shifted dead key > (which in altgr-intl becomes altgr-shift-tilde followed by a). > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency > > We would like to propose a modified International Keyboard map, keeping > the dead keys where they are, but adding all diaeresis and grave > versions of all vowels on altgr-keys close to the vowel. This would > require moving some others around or dropping them (like ð (eth) used in > Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese - languages with fewer > speakers). > > How do you feel about 'breaking' the (Microsoft) International Keyboard > map in favor of one that suits some languages better?
tbh, breaking is a bad idea, especially for something like keyboard layouts. Like languages itself, there are few technical arguments that really carry so changing a layout inevitably ruins the experience for someone (unless it's a clear bugfix, obviously). Worse, those who use it may not notice until a few years later when it ships in some random distribution, may not know who to contact for a regression fix, etc. So if you want a new layout, I'd say add it as a new layout. Less conflicts and less work all round for everyone involved. Cheers, Peter > > Regards, > > Adriaan > > The layout could look like this (qwerty etc with the altgr key held > down): > > ã å é è ø ù ú í ó ò > á à ë æ œ ì ü ï ö > ä © ç ® ß ñ µ > > removed: þ, ð. > _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
