Bug#493769: gnome-control-center: UK Dvorak keyboard layout slightly amiss

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Aug 29 21:21:28 UTC 2008


reassign 493769 xkb-data 0.9-4
thanks

Le lundi 04 août 2008 à 20:56 +0100, Phil Reynolds a écrit :
> 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.

The layouts are provided by xkb-data, not by GNOME.

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