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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: idea for kde
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-05-08 14:29:12
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On Tuesday 08 May 2001 12:16, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> Dne po 7. květen 2001 19:04 Neil Stevens napsal(a):
> > On Monday 07 May 2001 03:36 am, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> >  > b) the ex-windows users absolutely do not know about editing a text file
> >  > I assume. So having some configuration for that would be fine with
> >  > them.
> >
> > Well, an xmodmap frontend is one of the kcontrol modules I plan to get
> > written.  If someone is impatient enough to start before I get to it, be
> > my guest. :-)
> 
>  It would be much better if you wrote something better than kxkb instead ( be 
> it finally porting kikbd to KDE2.x or maybe better writing something from 
> scratch ). Note that your xmodmap frontend would be useless for everyone 
> using kxkb, as it simply resets the keyboard layout everytime you switch the 
> keyboard. I personally don't like XKB, maybe because Czech maps shipped with 
> XFree suck, and I really miss kikbd. I even recently added the possibility to 
> completely turn off kxkb including its initialization.

I agree. For instance, kxkb also makes it very difficult to add support
for the EuroSign, the way I explain how to do it in kword's webpage.
One needs to turn off kxkb to do that, which sucks.

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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