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List:       flightgear-devel
Subject:    [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Docs/keyboard
From:       Melchior FRANZ <a8603365 () unet ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       2004-02-02 22:38:28
Message-ID: 200402022338.28087 () pflug2 ! gphy ! univie ! ac ! at
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* Ronny Standtke -- Monday 02 February 2004 23:01:
> But dont be a sissy,

Who? The Empress? She was actually called Sisi ...



> I am a developer myself [...] and the German keyboard never troubled me 
> while programming.

But not a TeX programmer, right?  :-}



> > But thats quite OT, because switching to a saner keyboard layout is not an
> > option for fgfs users having problems to start engine no. 2.
> 
> It is not OT because different keyboard layouts are a problem for both 
> FlightGear developers and users.

You miss the point: What I deem OT is a discussion about the shortcomings
of German keyboard layouts. We can't change them, anyway.
That a solution for non-US-keyboards is necessary was never argued about,
and actually discussed a few times already. It's just that nobody found
it annoying enough to fix it.



> The solution for FlightGear could be to interpret keystrokes instead of 
> characters.

That would mean that we had to consider the layout of every keyboard
out there. And describing this in the documentation would be *the*
horror. "Press the second button from the left in the middle row (next
to the Control button, except if your Control button is the lowest, in
which case it's left from the CapsLock button ...".



> Hope to have sparked some discussion...

Sorry, no. That was Martin's reminder and my keyboard overview.
But you could contribute some code.  ;-)

m. 

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