| Summary: | Configurable shortcuts to switch to specific keyboard layouts | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08> |
| Component: | kcm_keyboard_layout | Assignee: | Andriy Rysin <arysin> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | cfeck, kde-2011.08 |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | 4.7 | |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Dotan Cohen
2010-01-27 17:47:39 UTC
This is possible in Windows. Do you mean global hot keys to switch between keyboard layouts, or do you want a specific action to be assigned to different keys depending on current keyboard layout (to work around bug 83732)? > Do you mean global hot keys to switch between
> keyboard layouts?
Yes. I would like to set (for example) Ctrl-1 to English layout, Ctrl-2 to Hebrew layout, and Ctrl-3 to Russian layout. Currently the user must rotate active layouts.
In Windows, when this is set, the user can just Ctrl-1 and know that he is in English, no matter which layout was previously selected. He doesn't have to search for the too-small icon way over in the corner of the system tray, he doesn't have to experiment to see what characters will appear in the text field, he doesn't have to think at all. Muscle memory types Ctrl-1 before English text, no matter if the current language is English already or something else. It always Just Works (tm) with no frustrations.
I'll put it this way: my only computer is Kubuntu with KDE 4. When I have to type a multi-language document, I go to the university's library to use Windows just for this feature. It is that helpful.
I have a code almost ready. Great, Andriy! Thanks! Git commit 4255976ffc53a8531a6565d65b53ae0beec99729 by Andriy Rysin. Committed on 02/03/2011 at 05:59. Pushed by rysin into branch 'master'. Allow (global) shortcuts per keyboard layout BUG: 224489 FIXED-IN: 4.7 M +104 -8 kcontrol/keyboard/bindings.cpp M +28 -3 kcontrol/keyboard/bindings.h M +11 -3 kcontrol/keyboard/flags.cpp M +2 -1 kcontrol/keyboard/flags.h M +1 -0 kcontrol/keyboard/kcm_add_layout_dialog.cpp M +29 -5 kcontrol/keyboard/kcm_add_layout_dialog.ui M +0 -54 kcontrol/keyboard/kcm_keyboard.cpp M +31 -18 kcontrol/keyboard/kcm_keyboard_widget.cpp M +3 -1 kcontrol/keyboard/kcm_keyboard_widget.h M +79 -6 kcontrol/keyboard/kcm_view_models.cpp M +25 -1 kcontrol/keyboard/kcm_view_models.h M +14 -6 kcontrol/keyboard/keyboard_config.cpp M +49 -31 kcontrol/keyboard/keyboard_daemon.cpp M +8 -2 kcontrol/keyboard/keyboard_daemon.h M +7 -18 kcontrol/keyboard/layout_tray_icon.cpp M +7 -5 kcontrol/keyboard/layout_tray_icon.h M +5 -3 kcontrol/keyboard/layouts_menu.cpp M +7 -0 kcontrol/keyboard/x11_helper.h http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/4255976ffc53a8531a6565d65b53ae0beec99729 Terrific, Andriy, thanks! |