On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 14:04, Радуле Шошкић
On 07/23/2010 03:12 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I recommend to start a new thread on your KDE 4 issues _and_CC_me_ rather than hijacking this one. I'll triage the issues and file the bugs. Thanks.
Hi list users, Dotan,
It's an old issue, but I hesitated to mention it until now. I even remember it happened once long time ago, during one of the earlier SUSE release transitions (even before kde4 appeared), and it got fixed after some time. This time, it reappeared with the KDE4, and I hoped this time it will get fixed again. But, it didn't, even with the release of openSUSE 11.3.
Ok, let me explain.
It is about the little tool for controling keyboard layouts. The one that sits in the tray, usualy showing national flags. Its name is kxkb.
In KDE3 it is part of kdebase3 package and in KDE4 it's part of kdebase4-workspace package. Despite the name, these are different programs, and on my machine the kde3 version is in /opt/kde3/bin directory and the kde4 version is in /usr/bin directory. I can run them independently, even concurrently (on my 11.1 and 11.2 boxes).
The new version is missing "include latin layout" checkbox in the configure window. Thanks to this checkbox, the old version could easily switch from any national layout to latin and back, just by pressing one key. One could have as many national layouts installed as he wants, and while being in each one of them, one could switch to latin and back just by one key press. E.g. I used left win key for toggling between any layout and latin, while having scroll lock LED for indicating alternate layout at any time. All this was configurable through "Xkb Options" tab in Configure window.
The new version can not do this. "Xkb Options" are now called "Advanced", and the left win key now cycles through all my keyboard layouts, instead of just switching from the current layout to latin and back.
I agree this is not big deal for most of the users around the list. But, I am sure that there are still many like me, whose national keyboard is not plain latin. Cyrillic, greek, chinese etc... I, for example have at least three layouts installed, switching heavily among them. Compared to the old one, the new kxkb is so annoying that in kde4 I had to remove it and to return to the kde3 version. Now, in 11.3, such workaround is not even possible.
I am not familiar with bugzilla, so I have to kindly ask Dotan to help me with this, if possible. Hope this will be solved soon.
TIA and best regards,
Radule Šoškić
Thanks Radule. Might one of these be appropriate: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176113 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204144 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224489 I also use three keyboard layouts (English, Hebrew, and Russian) and it drives me nuts to cascade through all of them whenever I switch. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org