On Monday 26 of July 2010 14:07:49 Radule Šoškić wrote:
Hi list users, Dotan,
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.
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.
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 miss some functionality of KDE3, too. Bug report for "sticky switching", which helps switching among more than 2 keyboard layouts: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204144 .
TIA and best regards,
Radule Šoškić
~rms~
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