** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #165802
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165802
** Changed in: gucharmap
Importance: Wishlist => Unknown
** Changed in: gucharmap
Status: Invalid => Unknown
** Changed in: gucharmap
Remote watch: GNOME Bug Tracker #331819 => GNOME Bug Tracker #165802
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66047
Title:
Shortcuts for non-keyboard characters in Gnome, as well as compose-key
combinations, are undocumented
Status in GUCharMap:
Unknown
Status in gucharmap package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
I discovered quite by chance (from http://en.wikipedia.org/Esszet)
that I could generate an ß in Gnome 2.14 and earlier using control-
shift-df (it changes to something else in 2.15 apparently). However I
can find nothing in the gnome documentation about this, or about all
the other characters I assume I could generate if I only knew how.
This feature should not only be documented in the help system, it
should also be introduced to new users in tutorials. Perhaps it could,
in addition, be mentioned in the documentation for the character
pallette and/or for the keyboard preferences.
The same should apply to the equally obscure xorg compose key. I
myself actually did find out a short while ago what the compose key
did, but I didn't know, until reading that wikipedia article, that
compose-ss would give me an ß. What I have managed to learn about
compose key combinations has been mainly through guesswork. There are
still many characters I would like to use that I haven't yet guessed.
You shouldn't need to use guesswork to unearth important features of
your desktop environment.
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