Re: ~/.Xmodmap and Gnome
Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:
> On 06-Jul-04, 09:52 (CDT), Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk> wrote:
>> What about Keyboard Shortcuts?
>>
>> I think the idea is to enable everyone to use these kinds of keys
>> instead of having to put things in .Xmodmap. So if it can't be made to
>> work out of the box, it is probably best to file a bug.
>
> I think it's great to provide a different interface that many people
> will find easier to use.
>
> Why does that requiring breaking the existing method? Especially since
> it's not just a matter of not reading .Xmodmap, but detecting it, and
> telling people to change?
Look, I'm not saying that disabling .Xmodmap necessarily is a good
idea, but there is probably some reason why it was done (and that
reason is probably not to annoy as many people as possible). I don't
know why. Go ask the people who did the change.
All I'm saying is that these changes means that some people in the
GNOME camp finally have begun working on making as much use of modern
keyboards as possible. So instead of continuing hacking around these
problems with .Xmodmap (as everyone has been doing until now), it is
probably a better idea to file bugs so that it can work out of the box
for everyone, if possible.
Does that make sense?
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Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/
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