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Re: Wayfire 0.8

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Oof. That is not an acceptable way to treat the issue. It’s one thing to say you don’t the time & cycles, but it’s another to WONTFIX it twice with a clear usability problem.

As the maintainer of Wayfire, I would like to say why I don't consider this a critical issue: the current system allows you to bind actions to a particular physical key. So, no matter what physical keyboard layout and actual layout in software, with the current system, you can bind the action to the desired physical key. Or do people actually want their keybindings to change when they change their layouts?

I edit in Vim using Dvorak. I always expect `ciw` to “change inner word” regardless of layout. Most shortcuts are stored in my head in this way, not by physical key placement. That said, it doesn’t bother me that xmonad sets up my keys based on the default layout, so if I switch to another to type in a non-Latin script, the WMs shortcuts stay bound to my ‘normal’ keymap as the others are only used temporarily.

Re: Wayfire 0.8

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It seems fine to me. They don't want to update it, so they close the issue. They're under no obligation (not even a moral one) to change their plans, and everyone's free to fork it to implement their own plans.

They seem interested in user feedback and genuinely curious about the use cases of others, though, as evinced by their activity here. Seems like a great time to politely make a case for one's preference, given the new attention and interest. :)

Even better :) Either way nothing to be mad at them about.
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