On 03/10/2007, Ales Cernosek <ales.cernosek at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> thanks for filling the bug (cc'ing also i18n discuss alias).
>
> I think there are 3 usability problems:
>
> -> default combination CTRL+SPACE for enabling/disabling input methods is 
> confusing and many applications use it in different way (e.g. Netbeans, 
> StarOffice-nonbreakable space, etc. ). So what is your opinion regarding to 
> default shortcut? My personal opinion, there is no default shortcut and user 
> should define new one after installation.
>

This I don't agree with. Having a sane default is good. The approach
should always be to try to pick a good default, and the let it be
customisable if possible.

Personally, I have never ran into an issue with 'Ctrl+Space' so for
me, it works just fine.

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