Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

[Ben Hetland <Ben A Hetland sintef no>]

Adrien Beau wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 07:43, Ben Hetland wrote:
> > The Norwegian keyboard also has this "third class" mania...
> > Some priorities are very strange, for example the so
> > important @ as AltGr-2, while the ¤ (generic currency?) being
> > at Shift-4. I never use the latter, anyone know what it's
> > used for? :-)
>
> Now, with an iso-8859-15 font, you have the Euro there,
> so it might become somewhat useful. Unless your OS is

The Euro symbol is actually on AltGr-E on the N. keyboards...
The £ and $ are on AltGr-3 and AltGr-4 respectively, and the ¤ still
there at AltGr-4, so there appears to be a choice for everything for us,
then. :-)

BTW this is keyboard mappings & labling, not font mapping.


> But if I understand correctly, this is more a GTK+ problem
> than a Dia problem?

Yes, it probably is... Dia should probably adhere to the "standard"
here, as a conforming GTK application. But if the "standard" allows for
any choice of behavior in this regards, I think Dia should seriously
consider it.

Or we might just start lobbying among the GTK developers... :-)


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