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On 2008-05-15T16:17:06+00:00 Gabriel de Perthuis wrote:

Users of Russian, Greek, Arabic, Japanese want to be able to type accels
using a qwerty layout. Users of French, German, and latin languages do
not want it.

Currently the first behaviour is implemented as a gtk+ hack -
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726 . The second set of
users suffers.

This behaviour should be implemented in xkb in a configurable way, so
that it can be removed from gtk+ and both sets of users can be happy.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/23244/comments/17

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On 2008-05-27T15:30:43+00:00 Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote:

xkeyboard-config has nothing to do with it. neither xorg. The
apps/toolkits get notifications about both keycodes and keysyms (and
modifiers and groups etc). The rest is up to them. If some key produces
letter S with group 1, and some other key produces letter S with group 2
- xkb can do nothing with the app looking for the symbol S but not for
the keycodes.

AFAIK gtk does not do any bad hacks - it correctly(!) just looks through
all the symbols in all groups of the pressed key.

PS Though, being Russian, I personally really like the way gtk behaves -
and sincerely cannot understand users having several latin layouts in
one configuration

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/23244/comments/18


** Changed in: xkeyboard-config
       Status: Invalid => Won't Fix

** Changed in: xkeyboard-config
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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keyboard shortcut mixed when using several keymaps
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