From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Dec 3 07:17:48 2009 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:12:50 +0200 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1881963883.20091203141250@hol.gr> To: "Jo Even Skarstein" CC: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table In-Reply-To: <9D5C4C1B0D164538A4EE26722817CB6E@mercatus.local> References: <4da966f00912020651m256cac55lde2e66430a659e04@mail.gmail.com> <105B3989630E4E7B93C3DA8382A39DFA@mercatus.local> <1259774252.20336.135.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <11a6f2b10912020955s78114460md9fb436a366065f6@mail.gmail.com> <1259782933.20336.138.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <4da966f00912021400r7e8e3474pf8c4ce86ba942296@mail.gmail.com> <1B895BD6F7A94A838CBC8365A9BD7588@mercatus.local> <4da966f00912030346jdbb7824o6bbff19a22408efb@mail.gmail.com> <9D5C4C1B0D164538A4EE26722817CB6E@mercatus.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/10108/Thu Dec 3 07:13:50 2009 on takeit01.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id nB3CHmEs001724 Hello Jo, Thursday, December 3, 2009, 1:57:37 PM, you wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Christos Tziotzis" > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 12:46 PM > To: "Jo Even Skarstein" > Cc: > Subject: Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table >> Yes, I pretty much need it system wide. Ideally I would like to be able to >> use it in programs like spreadsheets, highwire etc. > This should work fine if you can find a solution to the font-issue. >> I am looking at CKBD, not sure if it will work as I'd like it. We'll see. >> >> Maybe adding support for dead keys etc would be a useful addition to the >> mint kernel.. > Yes, that would be a good solution. Perhaps it could be implemented as > another "ALT"-table. Greek on ST was always a bit non-standard. We had to use (a bit dirty) TSRs that scanned the keyboard for alt/shift and changed keytabs. Dead keys were performed using ALT actually (so the greek eta with tone was alt+h). Personally that would be more than enough for me (dead keys are soooo Windows/Linux ;)) > Jo Even > PS. If there's any interest in switching keyboard layouts on the fly I could > implement this in Taskbar. It would be a very simple thing to do. Yes please! -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr