> I think "classic app" is somewhat misleading here ... how about "the vast > majority of apps" ? It rather changes what's written below. "Vast majority" does not describe that class of functionally:) I do not insist on terms but I think we understood each other.
> Which I expect would be so annoying that keyboard switcher would have to > implement the layout per window feature. It does, in both KDE and GNOME. But it is optional - some people still prefer it the windows way. > Maybe there are more, but these two are enough and they're both realistic. I > think you cannot just have apps say "switch (the global layout) to layout > XYZ". A possible solution I see is e.g. instead having setLayoutForWindow( > window_id, layout ). This is detail of implementation IMHO - but in general I see your point. Yes, race conditions are possible. Checking for the active window would allow to resolve some of them (not allowing inactive windows to change the layout directly) - but I have to think more about it. Thanks for the insightful comment, Sergey _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
