Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (128 mails)

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:43 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:

> This is all about https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373197
>
> Quick summary: for some reason living in X and difficult to solve at the
> moment, the current default keybinding to switch keyboard layout
> (Alt_L+Alt_R) does not work and can not work.
>
> Since it's not easily fixable, we can change the keybinding to something
> that works (Shift_L+Shift_R, for example). At least, it will work. But
> on the other hand, this will break user expectations for users who are
> used to the current keybinding (and we'll likely switch back to
> Alt_L+Alt_R in a future release, once it's working).
>
> The less worst solution, IMHO, is to change the keybinding for now and,
> if possible, hide the non-working keybindings, so people who care enough
> to look at the options can only select something that works.
>
> Thoughts?

I set it to Shift_L+Shift_R here when i noticed Alt_L+Alt_R didn't work,
but I didn't give it much thought beyond that. I'm in favor of having a
workaround, even if it's not ideal, so using the shift keys makes sense.
+1 for removing the non-working keybindings too.

-- 
Hans Petter

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