https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452759
--- Comment #14 from Denis Lisov <dennis.lis...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Andrey from comment #13) > The OSD when you start typing in window with another layout is expected > feature for Wayland. Would it make more sense to show the layout indicator right after switching windows, without waiting for the next keystroke? I can say for myself that I had to disable the indicator due to this bug. The indicator appearing on changing language felt like a nice confirmation; the indicator appearing on window switch would feel like a reminder too. The indicator appearing when I start typing felt different, more like an error of some kind, and kicked me out of the "composing text" context into the "reacting to events" one. Especially annoying when it did this every time when switching between text-operated windows with different layouts (think editor where I was writing text in English and a related chat I was having in a different language). If it happened on window switch it'd be perfectly okay for me as it'd overlap my context switch, but happening on the first keystroke it roughly doubled the context switch time for me and created an extra useless distraction. Trying to think about this some more I'd say that the problem is that for me it introduces a new and totally unneeded concept of "previous global layout". If I switch to a different window, then get slightly distracted and don't keep in mind that I came here from WINDOW, I don't remember what the keyboard layout was before switch, and have no way to guess whether the OSD will appear or not when I start typing. Especially given that the layout indicator (correctly) shows the new layout, not the old one. As yet another view on this problem, an indicator on the first keystroke is useless because it's too late. If I'm not looking at the screen I won't notice it at all. If I'm looking at the screen and the layout matches my intention it feels like an annoying "yeah, you're right" reminder. If I'm looking at the screen and the layout does not match my intention it comes at the same time I'd notice I'm typing wrong characters. In both latter cases it steals my personal attention focus without giving anything in return. Oh, and if I start with doing some interactive task like moving the cursor to the correct place it just breaks me out of the flow of this task. As a conclusion, I'd personally say that the minimal fix would be to show the indicator on window switch without delaying it to the first keystroke. I can also imagine some neat options that would be more invasive (like a language indicator for a window titlebar and making the notification into an animation of/around that indicator). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
