[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4436] german keyboard: default to variant with enabled deadkeys instead of "nodeadkeys variant" ( mga#3791)

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/7/30 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
> On 28 June 2012 02:51, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> german keyboard: default to variant with enabled deadkeys instead
>>>>> of"nodeadkeys variant"  (mga#3791)
>>>>
>>>> Oups, why that?
>>>> As far as I'm concerned no deadkeys is the default for German users and
>>>> that's good!
>>>>
>>>> Any reasons for this change?
>>>
>>> Call it "Competitive analysis" if you want. Keyboards comes with those
>>> little keys that are meant to produce accented characters in
>>> combination with regular letters, and this how it works on Windows,
>>> the platform most users will migrate from, and also on Mac OS X.
>>>
>>> Regular users don't have any use of stand-alone-accent-characters. And
>>> even with deadkeys it is easy to produce the standalone accent by just
>>> pressing the key twice (so you can get backticks easily).
>>> If you're a programmer and are using a nodeadkeys variant for that
>>> reason, you're not the target population of a suggested default. (If
>>> you know what is meant with "deadkeys" and "nodeadkeys", you're not in
>>> target of that dialog, and have the knowledge to not accept the
>>> default, but choose the nodeadkeys variant that is listed right next
>>> to the regular variant).
>>>
>>> The variant with deadkeys is called "German" without any addition for
>>> a reason. If nodeadkeys were the expected/more common choice, then it
>>> would be "German (international)" or "German (deadkeys)", like it is
>>> the case for the US-variants.
>>
>> So Olivier, do you agree with that change or not?

It may be logical but German users have been taught to use
"nodeadkeys" for ages. Changing this now just because of semantics
does not seem to be a wise move (I always use "German"). But OTOH it
is not such a big thing. It will cause the usual number of questions
in the forums ("MAG3 breaks my keyboard!") but this will vanish over
the years. :)

-- 
wobo