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

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> Hi Oliver, *,
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Oliver Burger
> <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Am 09.05.2012 23:48, schrieb root at mageia.org:
>>>
>>>      Log Message
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> ciao
> Christian
>

Actually belgian keyboards seem to have a similar issue, or so it seems...
I wonder if anyone knows if this could get fixed for belgian keyb's too