Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"
Date: 21:39 on 16 Mar 2007
Peter da Silva wrote:
>> Why they hid this in "Keyboard Shortcuts" I have no idea.
> 
> Every release of OS X has hidden more stuff in really fucked up places
> in Preferences.

Speaking of hiding stuff, whomever decided in 10.3 that it would be a great
idea to turn the simple "Keyboard Viewer" and "Character Palette" applications
into a piece of a library component which is a CLIENT of a keyboard viewer
SERVER... I mean my GOD it shows you a keyboard, its not a freakin database!
And make it accessable only via the International Preferences menu with the
actual app hidden in, are you ready?
/System/Library/Components/KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedSupport/KeyboardViewerServer.app
needs to be smacked with a dvorak keyboard.

The answer to "How do I type a euro symbol?" on an American keyboard used to
be easily answerable by opening up the "Key Caps" or "Keyboard Viewer"
application which lived with all the others.  Now its...

* Go to your System Preferences
* Go to "International"  (what? not Keyboard and Mouse?)
* Go to "Input Menu"
* Turn on "Keyboard Viewer"
* Turn on "Show input menu in menu bar"
* Find the little flag on your already cluttered menu bar
* Click on it.
* Choose "Show Keyboard Viewer"
* Done using it?  Now go back into the preferences and shut off the input menu.

What a mess.  Fortunately the recently maligned Applescript offers a way out.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051022020253863&query=keyboard%2Bviewer
There's stuff above here

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