From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accented letters ( typing in ) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:30:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20140118203039.GB23348@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <1389982848501-310678.post@n5.nabble.com> <87d2jpkj1p.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390077061 27734 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 20:31:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:31:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 18 21:31:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cXr-0001mI-3g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:31:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cXq-00020Q-HH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35936) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cXY-00020G-Rj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cXS-0007xL-Ha for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:30:48 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:60660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cXS-0007xH-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:30:42 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3DD021227 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:30:39 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 966872DCD2; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:30:39 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d2jpkj1p.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95492 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > On Debian (and I assume on Ubuntu which is a fork) > > you can configure your keyboard to create a compose > > key. > > That's interesting, because the Ubuntu is *dropping* X > for their own window system, Mir ("world" or "peace" in > Russian, perhaps unrelated), which they want because > they say X isn't flexible enough for their (Ubuntu's) > thrust on devices, Canonical wants the cell phone market. X is probably too heavy to use on cell phones. With that in mind it makes sense that Ubuntu would want something very light for use in the cell phone area. That is the purpose of Mir. > and they (Ubuntu) have lost confidence in Wayland. AFAIK Wayland was a feature change to support "compositing" such as multiple concurrent video streams and 3D and other shiny features that isn't natively supported by X. But that probably takes it out of the cell phone market too. And so they still need to go to Mir there. > Kubuntu though, the "female" Ubuntu that uses KDE instead of Gnome, What makes Kubuntu female? I have always considered all of the window systems gender neutral "its". > will keep X and keep supporting Wayland. Now, they are not crazy > enough to completely drop X, as it will be shipped even on Ubuntu, > with XMir in between, because there are so many tools (and scripts) > that rely on X. "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once." If they could they would. They can't yet. So they haven't. At least not yet. I predict that they will. It will just take them more time to get there. Bob