Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (31 mails)

[Marc Waeckerlin <Marc.Waeckerlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 7. September 2004 11.37 schrieb Mike FABIAN  <Mike FABIAN 
<mfabian@xxxxxxx>> unter "[m17n] input methods for alphabetical languages 
(was: [m17n] And the winner is... (or not?) SCIM is better, but buggy)":
> Imagine for example that you usually use German but also type French,
> and Spanish from time to time. Switching between German, French
> and Spanish keyboard layouts will be very inefficient, the

That's why we have Swiss German keyboards with èéàç with shift+üöä4. For the 
big umlauts and other accents, we need dead keys (or "Compose" on Sun), but 
that does not matter, because they are relatively seldom.


> In my opinion, one can type much faster if one stays with one keyboard
> layout and learn to use that really efficiently. But then one has to use
> input methods for everything not available on that keyboard layout
> of course.

Yes, that's a point of view.

My problem is, that most key layouts expect z where y resides and vice versa.


Regards
Marc