2018-07-13 3:31 GMT+03:00 Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>: > On 13/07/18 02:48, gevisz wrote: >> >> But currently I am ready to try even the "dirty" way to organize >> keyboard layout switch if it will give me a nice cracking sound >> of old good days :) when typing in Cyrillic keyboard layout. > > > It will not. There is no reason to, since you can see it. In MS-DOS, > you couldn't see it, thus the sound was the only way to communicate > the current keyboard layout to the user.
To many users, especially if they switch keyboard layout too often and between more than two keyboard layouts, it is extremely inconvenient to every time look for the small keyboard indicator on the screen to find out in which keyboard layout they are. Actually, this my question was triggered by a question on some forum where a user asked a similar question, namely, how other people solve the problem of indicating keyboard layout. The only thing I could reply to that question was that in good old days there was a nice MS DOS keyboard driver Keyrus that indicated a Cyrillic keyboard layout with a nice crackling sound... Surprisingly for me, for the topic starter, it was enough: he soon replied that in Windows the same is possible with Punto switcher, he set it and found it a nice way of indicating keyboard layout. The following is my translation of a quote from the creator of Punto switcher, in which he gives the reason why he decided to create it: "If we collect the curses of all computer users, when the text is not printed in the correct keyboard layout, then we would get the energy equal to one atomic bomb, and maybe two.” The original quote (in Russian) may be found here: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punto_Switcher As for me, for many years, I used to type without looking on the screen at all. It helped to save my eyes from eхcessive monitor radiation but not my nerves when I suddenly noted that last 10 minutes I typed in a wrong keyboard layout. Just to solve the said problem, I spent the last 3 years to learn touch typing in three different keyboard layouts, but after all this I can say that it is still inconvenient for me to control a current keyboard layout without a help of nice crackling sound.
