Comment 199 for bug 196277
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| André Pirard (a.pirard) wrote Re: [Bug 196277] Re: A GNOME login without keypress dosn't set GNOME keyboard settings | #199 |
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On 2008-10-10 07:09, svaens wrote :
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Ani <email address hidden> wrote:
>> o fix this bug we need to use "Alt+Shift" as default shortcut for
>> keyboard layout switching.
> what? Do you mean, the fix is to avoid triggering the problem
>
It also leaves the keyboard usage documentation costs to Bill :-)
Seriously, I mean this. Double pronged keyboard users like Cyrillic will
tell you they switch between US and their local layout with Shift-Alt.
Anyone "on the street" will, as if it were a hardware feature of the
keyboard.
Why would Linux answer be "whatever your setting is : Gnome ... KDE ...
Xfce ...", change the setting every time for every user you define"?
(fortunately, I myself do that with scripts).
Deciding the mode (US or local) in which the keyboard starts is enough
of a question already.
I went for US because some programs requiring it, like game movement
keys, make a misuse invisible, whereas almost every Cyrillic usage has
visual feedback of the typing.
I found that defining a Cyrillic keyboard is not exactly the easy Ubuntu
setup for everyone.