Bug 96204

Summary: persistant setting of language per window or app
Product: [Unmaintained] kxkb Reporter: Thomas Bettler <thomas.bettler>
Component: generalAssignee: Andriy Rysin <arysin>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: l.lunak
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thomas Bettler 2005-01-03 09:29:32 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

I'd like to set the language of an application in a persistant manner - i.e. via window behaviour.

Sure it is quick to open a terminal and press Ctrl+Alt+K to change the language. But since I use Enlish, Castellano and German, sometimes French - I have my preferred language for several tasks. I'd like to see my terminal with English keyboard - KMail, OpenOffice, ... with German keyboard as the default setting.
So far I didn't see an easy going way to make this setting persistant.

Or maybe it would be wise to remember language settings per application - so no extra definition is nessessary and this would give you even the better ease of use.
Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2005-01-03 13:39:10 UTC 
See the keyboard layout configuration, in the "Switching Options" tab, there's "Switching Policy".
Comment 2 Thomas Bettler 2005-01-03 14:33:14 UTC 
Yes, I already use the switching policy on per application level. I meant an other thing.

But I'd like to have german as my default keyboard, with exeptions for several apps.
i.e. if I open kterm I'd like that  _without_my_iteraction_  the keyboard switches to english keyboard only for this application.

I'm just tired to press Ctrl+Alt+K each time I open kterm, just to switch the keyboard on the kterm application level to english. Therefore I'd like the application to remember my keyboard setting - or to set a policy i.e. via window behaviour.

As far as I understand this is not yet possible with kde-3.3.2.
Comment 3 Andriy Rysin 2006-03-03 05:35:59 UTC 
I´ll take a look at it to implement in KDE4.
But I´ll do it withing a bug 52095 as it provides pretty much the same functionality but is more generic.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52095 ***
Comment 4 Thomas Bettler 2006-03-04 16:54:17 UTC 
That would be awesome. Huge thank you!