Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs please support the input of arbitrary unicode characters as defined in ISO 14755 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ISO-14755.pdf
I think this is more of a Qt issue.
You probably should report the wish to qt-bugs (at) trolltech.com Have a nice day!
reported upstream: Task 150387 - It would be useful to have full support of unicode characters as defined in ISO 14755. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=150387&method=entry
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
GTK+2—and even Windows XP—supports this.
upstream: Task 71224 - Qt/X11 does not allow input of Unicode characters using Ctrl+Shift followed by the character code http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=71224&method=entry
*** Bug 187263 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-8
The Qt devs conclude this: "This seems like a feature that should belong in the window-system and/or input-method, not in each toolkit." Therefore, Qt won't "fix" it and are passing he ball back to KDE.
No they didn't, they actually moved it further upstream, i.e. X11 or the input-method you're using (scim or uim for example).
Where do you see that, Andreas? Here is the Qt bug: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-8 I see no mention of X11 or scim/uim. The bug was resolved CLOSED as a feature request because the bug assignee does not think that it is a Qt issue. If this really was pushed further upstream, please link to the upstream bugs. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #11) > Where do you see that, Andreas? Here is the Qt bug: > http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-8 > > I see no mention of X11 or scim/uim. "windows-system" is clearly X11 for linux, note this is not the same as 'window-manager'. In particular the window-manager has nothing to do with typing any kind of text. Additionally the assignee mentioned "input-method" which scim/uim are. > The bug was resolved CLOSED as a feature > request because the bug assignee does not think that it is a Qt issue. Right, the assignee thinks it should be done in the input-method or the window-system and not the Qt toolkit. Both are further "up" on the stack, while KDE is down on the software stack (compared to Qt). > If this really was pushed further upstream, please link to the upstream bugs. Unfortunately I can't as the assignee didn't mention any bugreport he opened, apparently their policy on how to handle such things is differently than KDE's. Hence somebody who wants this feature will have to go to x.org and file a new request with them.
Thank you Andreas. Here is the Xorg bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26747 Please comment there and correct my report if there are any errors. I am not a developer, but of course I want the report to be accurate.
*** Bug 231823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can not accept these responses. It works with Ubuntu. So it can well be done in KDE too. This shoving around a very important convenience from one to each other is really one of the reasons that Linux has real problems to become really popular. That it is considered as important can be seen in Comment 4: « *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** » I do indeed hope, it can be attributed to somebody who is ready to try to solve it.
Well, the thing is: This is not some company that we paid for, neither do they necessarily want to. But instead, the source is open and free from the Content Mafia, and everybody can change things himself, or hire somebody or whatever. It’s another way of thinking that people who still think in the Microsoft/Apple box (like pretty much all Ubuntu and iDevice people, and far too many from Mozilla and the Plasma team) don’t seem to (want to[?]) get. It’s not *that* expensive to hire some developers. :) Many companies do it. Which is how most important open-source projects survive currently AFAIK. If we have a genuine need (spoiler: we do), and there’s enough people (seems like it), we could start a micro-Kickstarter or bounty on some other site, share the costs, and tell our favourite developers about it. :) I, personally, have given up on KDE, and “desktop” environments, applications, widget sets, window managers, etc in general, have seen the iDevicelikes and WhatWG cancers, and moved in a quite different direction, developing a very different user environment, primarily for me (and happily me alone), as I write this. So I’m out. But if you want, go ahead and set a bounty. :) (I wish bug trackers generally offered a bounty feature. :)
How would I do that? How expensive would that be? Any thoughts? Are we speaking in hunderds, thousends or more?