| Summary: | New layout "Aus der Neo-Welt" | ||
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| Product: | xkeyboard-config | Reporter: | Andreas Wettstein <wettstae> |
| Component: | General | Assignee: | xkb |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82924 | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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Thanks, I like the fact that you put it to extras from the start. One question - why do you want to patch rules/compat/* files? > One question - why do you want to patch rules/compat/* files? Because Neo 2 does the same. It is needed to make sure the Lock and Shift modifiers are bound properly to obtain the Neo 2 level scheme. caps(caps_lock) and misc(assign_shift_left_action) would be not required if compat would always bind all modifier keys to their usual modifiers (rather relying on Any+Lock and Any+Any patterns), along the lines of what Stephan suggested some time ago (see bug #30980). Maybe you should consider his proposal. It would make live easier for most people (The only downside I see is that some xmodmap users might have to adjust their configuration a bit. And a modifier_map entry would still be required for at least one Shift and one Control key, as otherwise, the menus in OpenOffice will not display the shortcuts correctly. But I digress.). level5(level5_lock) does not make much sense in my opinion, I just kept it to match Neo 2. To me, it would make more sense to replace ISO_Level5_Lock by Num_Lock in symbols/level5. But this is anyway irrelevant as long as EIGHT_LEVEL_LEVEL_FIVE_LOCK and EIGHT_LEVEL_ALPHABETIC_LEVEL_FIVE_LOCK are disabled. Digressing once more: Does the bug that motivated disabling these types still exist? Currently, Neo 2 (and in the future, "Aus der Neo-Welt") are seriously hurt by being forced to use EIGHT_LEVEL and EIGHT_LEVEL_SEMIALPHABETIC, which do not preserve the Shift modifier for Level 6. This would be required to use the navigation keys on Level 5/6 to mark text. Even when the bug still exists, I think it would make sense to bring back EIGHT_LEVEL_LEVEL_FIVE_LOCK and EIGHT_LEVEL_ALPHABETIC_LEVEL_FIVE_LOCK and instead to remove PC_RCONTROL_LEVEL2 and PC_LCONTROL_LEVEL2, as the latter can easily replaced by PC_CONTROL_LEVEL2 (unless LControl and RControl are not bound to distinct real modifiers, which is unlikely to ever happen, as it is unlikely to work anyway, because one of these real modifiers will be different from Control, but still will have to be treated as Control by all applications around). Created attachment 98426 [details] [review] Implementation Fix a typo ("den" instead of "der") in the name in rules. Thanks, committed. I took freedom to change the variant name to adnw/adnw_base. Hope you don't mind. |
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Created attachment 98055 [details] Implementation This patch provides the layout "Aus der Neo-Welt". This is layout computer-optimised for German and English, based on quality criteria similar to those used by Dvorak for his famous layout. "Aus der Neo-Welt" has been in existence and stable for about four years. Its user community has a web site adnw.de and a mailing list with currently 59 members. The real number of users is hard to estimate, but at this point, certainly well below the numbers of Neo 2 users (The Neo 2 mailing list was somewhat about 200 members when I last looked). As the number of users is still low, I put "Aus der Neo-Welt" to the "extra" section. The implementation is based on Neo 2, as most users of "Aus der Neo-Welt" appreciate the level scheme it provides. I ordered the keys primarily according to key types, not according to key codes. This is to make easy for users who want to implement their Neo 2 based layout: They just have to swap keycodes in the "Aus der Neo-Welt" implementation.