Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
Shachar Shemesh wrote on 2003-07-04:
2. Knowing what the actual details of the keymap are (i.e. - pressing
the key leftmost on the upper row produces a ~ etc).
3. Knowing when the user switches between the groups (I think there is
an X event that notifies about that, so this may not be a major problem).
Not all users like programs to be sensitive to their keyboard maps.
In particular I hate Word's different treatement of "Hebrew" digits
vs. "English" digits. I'm not 100% sure about it but I got the
impression that it remembers the langauge of anything typed, even
digits, and has no way to change it later (except by erasing and
re-typing).
I'm sorry, wine's purpose is not to fix broken Windows applications. The
current situation with Word is much worse on Wine than it is on Windows,
and I think I can say quite categorically that I'm aiming for it to be
exactly the same, not better.
I suggest also implementing a mode When wine notifies windows apps of
keyboard changes lazily: only when you actually type a letter of a
different language wine would tell the application the keyboard layout
"has just changed".
See my answer above.
It's hard to decide what to do about digits. If
Word does depend on their language having them hard-coded as e.g.
English might do even more damage. So the best policy seems to be
"notify of layout switch if new keysym not found in current layout".
Now wer'e talking about something else. I have just come back from a
meeting where I took it upon myself to try and formulate what NEEDS to
be done. It is highly unlikely to affect Word, but it is likely to
affect OpenOffice. If you have specific feedback, I would like to hear
about it.
--
Shachar Shemesh
Open Source integration consultant
Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
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