Re: accented letters ( typing in )

[Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>]

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