Bug#493769: gnome-control-center: UK Dvorak keyboard layout slightly amiss
Phil Reynolds
phil at tinsleyviaduct.com
Mon Aug 4 19:56:54 UTC 2008
Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.14.2-7
Severity: normal
It is nice to see that there is a UK Dvorak keyboard layout in Gnome,
but there are a few things I consider amiss.
First, the positions of the " and @ signs are suboptimal - ideally in a
Dvorak layout, the " should be with the ', even though that is the US
standard. @ could quite happily go to Shift-2 or AltGr-' if this is
done.
Second, Shift-` produces ~. not ¬(notsign), but the # and ~ key is
still implemented.
It could actually be correct that the @ and " are in the positions they
are in, but if so I would like to see a reference to this as the UK
Dvorak layout elsewhere.
I am quite happy with the QWERTY layout but thinking of experimenting
with Dvorak.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii capplets-data 1:2.14.2-7 configuration applets for GNOME 2
ii desktop-file-utils 0.11-1 Utilities for .desktop files
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.14.3-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.14.2-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gnome-menus 2.16.1-3 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-5 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4.1+etch1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1+etch1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libebook1.2-5 1.6.3-5etch1 Client library for evolution addre
ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5+etch2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.16.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.14.3-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.6.0-3 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-menu2 2.16.1-3 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii libgnome-window-settin 1:2.14.2-7 Utility library for getting window
ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.14.2-7 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3+etch1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.4-1 library for common error values an
ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.10-4 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.10-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmetacity0 1:2.14.5-4 library of lightweight GTK2 based
ii libnautilus-extension1 2.14.3-11+b1 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.3-0.2 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.8-2 library for program launch feedbac
ii libtasn1-3 0.3.6-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxklavier10 2.2-5 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.1.0-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii evolution-data-server 1.6.3-5etch1 evolution database backend server
ii gnome-session 2.14.3-5 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-user-guide 2.14.2-2 GNOME user's guide
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