Hello, I hope I am writing this to the right mailing list. I wanted to discuss keyboard language settings and why I think the way it works now has usability issues. I will take myself as a use case for this issue but I know of other people that also have the same problem. I will use 11.10 beta 2 as example here as it is the most up to date version.
I speak swedish and english and regularly use both layouts, I am also trying to learn some korean so I do use korean layout also. To switch between swedish and english it is very easy and intuitive. I go to settings - keyboard layout and add both swedish and english and I can now switch between them and write åäö with my swedish layout. Now if I want to add korean It becomes a bit more complicated and confusing. If I add korean in keyboard layout I can only type in english using that layout. To get Korean I need to go into language and support and enable ibus and then add korean to ibus. now I am suddenly doing two things I can switch between input method if I want to use korean or chinese etc and then switch keyboard layout when I want to use english/swedish. Is there some way this could be unified to make it less confusing and easier to switch between langauges? (possibly use ibus for everything?) as extra information I could add that windows also has similar problem. For korean they have a separate inputmethod that in itself has english and korean so when switching to korean layout I first need to do a 3rd level switch to get it to be korean characters instead of latin. With all operating systems I have used I would say OSX and Opensolaris are the easiest ones for using multiple keyboard languages. http://blogs.oracle.com/sunwg11nprg/entry/switching_keyboard_layout_in_solaris Sorry again if this is the wrong place! //Jesper _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
