Bug#493769: gnome-control-center: UK Dvorak keyboard layout slightly amiss

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

severity 493769 wishlist
tag 493769 moreinfo
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Hi Phil,

On Mon, Aug  4, 2008 at 20:56:54 +0100, Phil Reynolds wrote:

> It is nice to see that there is a UK Dvorak keyboard layout in Gnome,
> but there are a few things I consider amiss.
> 
> First, the positions of the " and @ signs are suboptimal - ideally in a
> Dvorak layout, the " should be with the ', even though that is the US
> standard. @ could quite happily go to Shift-2 or AltGr-' if this is
> done.
> 
> Second, Shift-` produces ~. not ¬(notsign), but the # and ~ key is
> still implemented.
> 
> It could actually be correct that the @ and " are in the positions they
> are in, but if so I would like to see a reference to this as the UK
> Dvorak layout elsewhere.
> 
> I am quite happy with the QWERTY layout but thinking of experimenting
> with Dvorak.
> 
I'm not sure what problem you're reporting here, exactly.

I guess it's with this:
    key <TLDE> { [      grave,  notsign,   bar,           bar   ] };

What would you have instead, and why is the current layout incorrect in
your opinion?

Cheers,
Julien