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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:26:03AM +0300, Aleksandr Guidrevitch wrote: |
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> >Why? What's wrong with the default program KDE provides for keyboard layout |
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> >management? |
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> Do you mean kxkb ? Hehe :) Well : |
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> 1. I don't like to switch layouts with ctrl+alt+k. |
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> Instead, I prefer ctrl+shift for layout switching |
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> (impossible with kxkb, since it suppresses default xkb behaviour) |
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Strange. I happily switch keyboard layouts using alt-shift without |
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kkbswitch. Did you ever check the keyboard settings of KDE 3.2? It stops |
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the behaviour which was likely the reason for programs like kkbswitch or |
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xxkb. Now it looks like it's just a frontend to the commands provided by |
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Xfree86. |
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> 2. kkbswitch only indicates current layout, the swithing is actually |
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> preformed by xkb. |
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> This is correct, IMO. |
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Same for KDE 3.2, as far as I can tell. |
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> 3. ex-Windows users would prefer to use ctrl+shift (or ctrl-alt, or |
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> shift+shift) layout switch, |
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> instead of ctrl+alt+k (the only available in kxkb) and mouse. |
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That was never correct. You could user-define the hotkeys for such |
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actions also in older KDE versions. Not with the keymap settings, but |
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in the global hotkey configuration. |
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> 4. AltLinux, a quite good, if not best, russian distro uses kkbswitch as |
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> layout indicator |
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> (no kxkb). I really understand and appreciate their choice for the |
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> reason indicated above. |
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I think these reasons (mostly, if not all) don't exist any more. |
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> Is that enough to consider kkbswitch as a portage candidate ? ;-) |
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Well, having it would do no harm, of course. I was just asking why you |
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think it is necessary, I'm not in the kde-herd anyway :-) |
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Bye, Patrick |