2007-10-14 (일), 23:19 +0200, Mildred 쓰시길: > Le Fri 05/10/2007 à 23:51 Nicolas Mailhot à écrit: > > Windows solved this problem years ago. Instead of having a keyboard > > layout/IM switcher, you add a language switcher to the desktop. > > Switching languages may require a layout/IM change, or not. When it > > requires a layout/IM change the switcher behaves like the current > > GNOME or KDE keyboard applet. The smart thing is that even when there > > is no layout/IM change needed the user can still press his switcher > > hotkey, and apps are informed the language being typed changed. > > What about if I have two windows. In one I'm writing an e-mail in > english, and in the other, I'm creating a document using another > language ? > > Maybe it could be a per-window property ... i think the keyboard layout > can be like that too.
Per-window property is not useful as it seems. Now my desktop actually has a Tomboy note window which has some ideas written in Korean, and I'm writing this mail in English. Completely different 2 ways of keyboard input are used in these two windows; QWERTY in Evolution, and Korean IM in Tomboy. Guess what my current English/Hangul state in the Tomboy window is: English. I once tried per-window and per-app English/Hangul state options (nabi XIMS has such an option), but soon I realized these options really confused me. Everytime when I switched between windows, I had to check the English/Hangul state in systray because I couldn't remember all the states of the windows in my desktop. Per-window state was useful only when I could remember those states easily (eg. fast switching betweeen writing text & Instance Message). It's surely an overhead to press English/Hangul toggle key more. It is not required with per-window property. But IMO it's much better than increasing user confusion. > Except that, I think it is a great idea that will benefit free > desktops, if it is implemented. But I can't help, I don't know how > standards are made. I'm just here to try to give ideas. > > Mildred. > -- Changwoo Ryu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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