On Nov 24, 2007 6:04 AM, Sergey Udaltsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edward, > > > will need to allow for countries that use three or more scripts > > routinely, for students of history, religion, and other subjects > > involving historical source documents, and especially for students of > > languages.
> FYI, X does not allow to have more than 4 groups in one configuration. > If you need more - you have to reconfigure XKB. In 99% it is not an > issue - but I know there are multilingual people who are unhappy about > it. They have to use some workarounds. We don't have to preconfigure everything in the xorg.conf manner. All we need is a right button menu, like that for SCIM, allowing users to choose a keyboard layout, and possibly an editor for that menu. The menu selection can then invoke a call to setxkbmap. > > Mongolia would like traditional Mongol alphabet, Cyrillic, and Latin, > > and possibly Chinese. Certainly if we include Inner Mongolia. Plus > > Buddhist languages, including Sanskrit and Tibetan. > Do they need all these scripts in one configuration? Not everybody needs all of them. Chinese is handled by SCIM, not by X keyboards. But you have to ask teachers and students in both Mongolias what they need. You can't decide for them. > > China has more than 50 legally-recognized minorities, several with > > their own writing systems (Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur, Yi). > Do you know many people who would use all these writing system at once? I know of people who would like Chinese and two or three keyboards, and a few who need Latin, Mongolian, Cyrillic, and Tibetan. > In general, I'd tend to agree to your point that changing keyboard > configuration should be more accessible than it is now. At the very > least, it should be properly documented and explained. Probably, > simple GUI configuration should be available for that task (by > "simple" I mean it should not necessarily expose all powers of XKB > configuration machinery). Yes, it should only offer standard options on standard layouts. > Bernardo, I think you concern about making > the device screwed by choosing fancy layout is a bit of exageration - > there is always touchpad which could be used to find the "restore > default" button. As I was saying, the whole apparatus should be on a right button menu. > Cheers, > > Sergey > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Edward Cherlin Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Earth_Treasury "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay -- Edward Cherlin Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Earth_Treasury "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
