Bug 15948 (qwerty-accels)

Summary:	Make "qwerty accels" configurable xkb behaviour
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Gabriel.de-Perthuis
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	freedesktop, myk
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Gabriel.de-Perthuis 2008-05-15 16:17:06 UTC

Users of Russian, Greek, Arabic, Japanese want to be able to type accels using a qwerty layout. Users of French, German, and latin languages do not want it.

Currently the first behaviour is implemented as a gtk+ hack - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726 . The second set of users suffers.

This behaviour should be implemented in xkb in a configurable way, so that it can be removed from gtk+ and both sets of users can be happy.

Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2008-05-27 15:30:43 UTC

xkeyboard-config has nothing to do with it. neither xorg. The apps/toolkits get notifications about both keycodes and keysyms (and modifiers and groups etc). The rest is up to them. If some key produces letter S with group 1, and some other key produces letter S with group 2 - xkb can do nothing with the app looking for the symbol S but not for the keycodes.

AFAIK gtk does not do any bad hacks - it correctly(!) just looks through all the symbols in all groups of the pressed key.

PS Though, being Russian, I personally really like the way gtk behaves - and sincerely cannot understand users having several latin layouts in one configuration

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