Re: [Fwd: Re: New string in gnome-control-center]

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

fre 2004-02-27 klockan 23.46 skrev Dafydd Harries:
> Ar 26/02/2004 am 23:17, ysgrifennodd Jody Goldberg:
> > I'll disagree here.  This is a problem that will bite anyone that
> > has been using X for a while.  The most common use case I've seen is
> > people that have ctrl and caps lock swapped.  They log into their
> > shiney new gnome and _poof_ their long standing changes don't work
> > anymore.  They are not necessarilly technical, xkb is quite new and
> > not well used.
> 
> Could you be a bit more specific than "anyone that has been using X for
> a while"? Under what circumstances will a .xmodmap file get created?
> Am I right in thinking that the problem only arises if a .xmodmap file
> exists?
> 
> Basically, I would like to know how prevalent the situation is likely to
> be, and for which types of users it is likely to occur. If it's a small
> proportion of technical users, I'm inclined to reject this change.
> 
> In my opinion, iff a reasonably techincal person upgrades to GNOME 2.6
> and their xmodmap configuration isn't working, one of the first things
> they'll do is check .xsession-errors.

Btw, please keep people cc:ed, at least if you reply to them. Jody isn't
subscribed to gnome-i18n (that's why a previous answer had to be
forwarded).


Christian