2009/3/30 Jorge González <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > I'm having some issues with keyboard accelerators. Recently some users > opened bugs concerning the usage of keyboard accelerators with letters > containing accents (ie.e _í, _á, etc); apparently they do not work, > however I'm quite sure I tried them long ago and they did work. How > are other teams that use accents (and such) dealing with this problem? > Are you avoiding using keyboard accelerators with these letters? > Should I report the bug to gtk?
It is indeed a bug. For our case, we (Greek team) try to avoid those characters when setting accelerators for the reasons below. The source of the problem relates to your keyboard layout, and the fact that it may require dead keys in order to print characters such as áéäẽ, etc. Due to the dead key sequence, it is currently not possible to do things like Alt + <dead_acute> + <a>, the sequence is canceled as soon as Alt+dead_acute is pressed. If however you could get á in your keyboard layout by pressing a single key (that is, no need for dead key), then the accelerator would simply work. Is it a GTK+ bug or a Xorg bug? GTK+ could be modified so that when it sees "_árbol", it would actually register it as if it work "_arbol", so pressing Alt+a would simply work. The downside is that it would not be able to distinguish between áäãâà, etc. Would that be a realistic problem however? Would we want users to have to press Alt+<dead_acute>+a in order to get to the accelerator? With some layouts, you get <dead_acute> when you press AltGr+<somekey>, so the full keyboard sequence is Alt+(AltGr+<somekey>+<a>). I think I have seen a report about this but I cannot find it at gtk+, component: input-methods. It might actually be a report at freedesktop.org, so you might want to have a look there. The sequence Alt+<dead_key>+<char> might actually fail due to the X server cutting the sequence once the deadkey is pressed. Hope this helps, Simos _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
