Bug 204900

Summary:	put back keyboard layout sticky switching
Product:	[Unmaintained] kxkb	Reporter:	Stas <ss.paranoid>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Andriy Rysin <arysin>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	irisxlampatsi, orionbelt2, tilarien
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Stas 2009-08-23 19:26:47 UTC

Version:           2.0 (using 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0) "release 155", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.1)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.27.25-0.1-default

In KDE 3.5 there was a feature to make sticky switching. It was extremely useful if you have 3 layouts configured, but using third of them once a week. It was major usability improvement over windows where you have to switch all 3 in cycle, and I can't fing anything similar in current KDE version. Please put this option back into keyboard layout configuration. Or do something similar - like one keyboard shortcut to switch between 1 and 2, and another - to switch between 1 and 3.

Comment 1 orionbelt2 2009-10-25 02:03:59 UTC

I am adding my voice to this request. This was a very useful feature that just disappeared in the KDE4 transition... Internationalization is one of KDE's biggest strengths, and the main reason i personally use KDE over more lightweight alternative WMs. Seeing internationalization aspects of KDE de-evolve as the project advances is somewhat disappointing.

Many thanks to Andriy for his time. I hope he's not the only one working on kxkb, though! :)

Comment 2 irisxlampatsi 2009-10-27 18:39:27 UTC

I too would like to see this useful feature come back in a future release. Not having to cycle through 3 (or 4) layouts can be a real time-saver in many real-world usage scenarios. I hope it's not much trouble to re-enable it in KDE4...

Comment 3 Andriy Rysin 2010-05-18 04:41:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204144 ***