Applications seeing a mix of symbols through the extend layer, and of the original keypress, triggering unwanted keybindings about bigbagkbdtrixxkb

[antoine-gallix]

Yes I think I got seduced by the "united europe" tone of the EurKey layout. But after a while, I pretty much agree with your conclusions.

[antoine-gallix]

This seems to be a problem inside VS-code who recently decided to read keycodes instead of keysyms. microsoft/vscode#23991

[DreymaR]

Yes, some programs will read key codes directly and that may cause problems for users of alt-layouts.

On a side note, I think the EURkey layout isn't so good. I've discussed that at length elsewhere, but basically it falls into the same pit as Shai's own AltGr layers: Trying to do everything at once causes a confusing and unsatisfactory result. You have intuitive mappings for a few accents, but others are relegated to unintuitive key mappings which frankly, sucks.

These days I'm doing a lot of work on the Compose key, but that's using EPKL on Windows. There is of course a nice Compose key in the X server, since Compose is an old Linux favorite and what taught me about it. But the flexibility to edit its function by layout and enhance it further is something I've done with EPKL alone so far. With individual Compose mappings, you can solve the problem of mapping overload very elegantly.