Re: [tlug] Holy smokes, Unity and Gnome 3 suck worse than I ever could have imagined.

[brandelune@example.com]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> brandelune@example.com writes:
> 
>> Also, I don't know a Linux distribution that does multilingual
>> support the way OSX does. Like, I can type French, Japanese and
>> English out of the box on my sjis Japanese KB without having to
>> change the KB layout (and blind type the French keys).
> 
> If I could type French, or Cyrillic, it would be no problem for me to
> do it on Linux.  But there is a price for most people: you need to use
> Emacs.

I know that. But emacs does not yet support Java ;)

Honestly, if input systems were better integrated and/or more user friendly (like in "designed" for users :) I'd be all for going Linux.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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