Keyboard switching

Sergey Udaltsov sergey.udaltsov at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 07:09:10 EST 2007


> We don't have to preconfigure everything in the xorg.conf manner. All
> we need is a right button menu, like that for SCIM, allowing users to
> choose a keyboard layout, and possibly an editor for that menu. The
> menu selection can then invoke a call to setxkbmap.
Yes, this way you'd get any layout you want, any number of them. But
usability-wise "right button menu" is a horrible thing. For people
using 2-4 layouts, much more usable solution is switching using
keyboard (some shortcut). And that's the first thing which should be
taken care of IMHO - from both configuration and UI POV.

Sergey



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