Re: Loadable keyboards

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> But I think the Alt keys are not needed at all. Do they exist on
> English/American keyboards?

Yes, they do.

> I think they're on German and similar
> keyboards where they needed to put some special national chars on
> keyboards and they were missing free keys. I think the real solution is
> to use dead keys or two different keyboards (one for programmers with
> []{}+-\@() and other for writting texts with national chars). I am going
> to make the dead keys in Clocky freely editable, so you would be able to
> map Polish or whatever characters on any keys and would not need Alt
> combinations anymore.

Sorry I disagree. We have 2*9 "local" characters here and the only
convenient way to get them is using a combination of Alt/key. This allows
fast typing. Dead keys are lotsa less convenient.

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