[kde-doc-english] Where are the compose key docs?

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:46:48 +0300, Greg Metcalfe  
<gmetcalfe at centurytel.net>:

> Systems settings help is a locator service, at best. I'm glad the
> compose key location seems to have stabilized from F13 onwards, save
> that in F16, it's defined by default as both left and right Win keys. I
> used to define it as just the left Win key.
>
> Fine. Whatever.
>
> But could you provide some doc on how to use the thing? There's nothing
> in kwrite or kate doc, and nothing in the settings 'help'. In Windows,
> this is all numeric, and impossible to remember for most people. X/KDE
> is a vastly better system.
>
> /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
> is not the whole story. I know I used to be able to get a micron symbol,
> because I read a doc where I used it. I can't find it again. Slash u, or
> u slash doesn't work, no matter the case. Nor could I find any reference
> to it in that /usr/share/X11 doc. It could be in there, but it's not
> really searchable. 'Micron' came up empty, and there are innumerable
> 'u's. The file is 5359 lines!
>
> Searching the KDE online docs, I get four hits. None of them relevant.
> The only help available is random returns from Google--much of it dated.
> A grep through the filesystem turned up mostly Gnome docs. Which I
> supose I would have to go through, if I wanted it badly enough to waste
> hours in the chase.
>
> If a 'micron' compose key sequence still exists, it might as well not.
> Nobody can discover how to access it! Please, please, PLEASE don't use
> this as an argument for yet more dumbing-down of the interface, and just
> elliminate the feature. The more valuable, though harder, software
> engineering path is to stabilize and document the capability.
>
> I'm not going to learn C++ and the Qt libs to help you with this--I'm
> busy too. I just spent 12 hours writing bash, Python, and Go. But I'm
> willing to help with testing and doc writing.

Hi,

There is a good tutorial on this topic on UserBase [1]. Please follow it  
(tested here, Mageia 2, KDE 4.8.2, works). You can assign for micron any  
combination that is convenient for you.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yuri

[1] http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey