No, the problem is NOT having a keyboard layout for US keyboards in which typing 'c gives ç.
Using multi-key for anything is not an option if you are a touch typist and the letter you want to type appears very frequently in your language. The multi-key options are irrelevant for this problem. Of course there should some way to type c with acute, but that option should not be 'c for US keyboards, as there are no accented Cs in any language that uses US keyboards. For those languages, which also have many other different characters, the use of specific keyboard layouts cannot be avoided. For characters as the 'c with acute', which are so infrequently used in English as in Portuguese, one could have an easily available character table. I don't think that any other language uses US keyboards with dead keys except Portuguese and Spanish. In Spanish there is no problem, because the only non-English character is the ñ, and there is no ambiguity there. For Portuguese, the only non-English character is the ç, for which the good option is the 'c, as it is a two-strike combination. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518056 Title: cedilla appears as accented c (ć instead of ç) when typing 'c Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When typing in a US-international keyboard with dead-keys (or UK-international), typing 'c results in an accented c instead of a cedilla. There is a workaround, which is editing the /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodule-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.immodules file and changing the line "cedilla" "Cedilla" "gtk20" "/usr/share/locale" "az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa" to "cedilla" "Cedilla" "gtk20" "/usr/share/locale" "az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa:en" (add the 'en' at the end). However, every time some update on this file is applied, one looses the change, and we get back to the accented c. That means having to modify the file again, logout and login. For me this is no problem. But for my brother, mom, dad, etc, it is always something that at least makes me less proud of having convinced them to use Ubuntu, because they don't know what to do each time this happens. I think we really need a configurable keyboard layout, or at least (and that would be very easy), the inclusion of alternate layouts on install that for the dead-key options (as US-deadkey and UK-deakey), alternate layouts as US-deadkey-cedilla. This change is relevant for at least Portuguese and French. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/518056/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
