On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > I hope that when XI and XKB are reworked a "language" property will be > added to the protocol. > > Right now many apps try to infer the language being written from the > xkb layout in use (for on the fly spellchecking, activation of the > correct locl font features, etc) and since the same layout can be used > to write different languages the heuristic breaks badly.
In which way the language is an server-level issue? The keyboard layout, definitively, but the language? Having a "default language" as a desktop-level property, sure, but protocol level does not make much sense. OG. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
