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2018-07-13 3:31 GMT+03:00 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>: |
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> On 13/07/18 02:48, gevisz wrote: |
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>> But currently I am ready to try even the "dirty" way to organize |
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>> keyboard layout switch if it will give me a nice cracking sound |
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>> of old good days :) when typing in Cyrillic keyboard layout. |
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> It will not. There is no reason to, since you can see it. In MS-DOS, |
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> you couldn't see it, thus the sound was the only way to communicate |
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> the current keyboard layout to the user. |
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To many users, especially if they switch keyboard layout too often |
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and between more than two keyboard layouts, it is extremely |
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inconvenient to every time look for the small keyboard indicator |
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on the screen to find out in which keyboard layout they are. |
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Actually, this my question was triggered by a question on some forum |
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where a user asked a similar question, namely, how other people solve |
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the problem of indicating keyboard layout. The only thing I could reply |
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to that question was that in good old days there was a nice MS DOS |
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keyboard driver Keyrus that indicated a Cyrillic keyboard layout with |
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a nice crackling sound... Surprisingly for me, for the topic starter, |
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it was enough: he soon replied that in Windows the same is possible |
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with Punto switcher, he set it and found it a nice way of indicating |
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keyboard layout. |
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The following is my translation of a quote from the creator of Punto |
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switcher, in which he gives the reason why he decided to create it: |
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"If we collect the curses of all computer users, when the text is not |
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printed in the correct keyboard layout, then we would get the energy |
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equal to one atomic bomb, and maybe two.” |
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The original quote (in Russian) may be found here: |
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punto_Switcher |
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As for me, for many years, I used to type without looking on the screen |
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at all. It helped to save my eyes from eхcessive monitor radiation but |
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not my nerves when I suddenly noted that last 10 minutes I typed in |
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a wrong keyboard layout. |
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Just to solve the said problem, I spent the last 3 years to learn touch |
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typing in three different keyboard layouts, but after all this I can |
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say that it is still inconvenient for me to control a current keyboard |
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layout without a help of nice crackling sound. |
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