Keyboard layout in KDE
The Developer Journals CRM Simon Edwards typed his blog about keyboard configuration in somehow never lets me complete the login procedure, even though I do have an account, so I'll post my reaction here, on my own blog. (Where the comment software does have its own problems, but at least I can post.)
My take on this is: he's right on all counts. Actually, I noticed a recent regression, don't know exactly when it happened first. I used to have two keyboard layouts, one US English (for coding) and one US International with dead keys, for writing Dutch. There aren't actually many computers sold in the Netherlands with the Dutch keyboard layout, most of them have the US layout.
With the version the keyboard configuration in Kubuntu breezy, I can no longer do that: there's just one US keyboard layout that I can select exactly once, and then select a variant to that. So, I can no longer have US without dead keys and US with dead keys in the keyboard layout changer, and I have know whether I want the intl or the alt-intl variant... I have to make do with something closish, like UK with dead keys and US without. Argh.
Of course, I could hack this through editing the command-line for uk into using us... But that's not why I use a configuration dialog.
Oh, and I think I once typed a euro sign by using right-alt-5, but I'm not sure, and at the moment it doesn't seem to work.
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