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Bug 161454 - Keyboard layout tab
Keyboard layout tab
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboard
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 115435
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-16 14:48 UTC by Reinout van Schouwen
Modified: 2005-01-05 17:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

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2004-12-16 14:48 UTC, Reinout van Schouwen 		Details

Description Reinout van Schouwen 2004-12-16 14:48:06 UTC 
E-mail and IRC log pertaining to the design of the keyboard layout tab, and
integrating the keyboard switcher prefs into this capplet.

From reinouts@gnome.org Thu Dec 16 12:34:32 2004
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:34:30 +0100 (CET)
From: Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts@gnome.org>
To: svu@gnome.org
Subject: layouts and stuff


Hello Sergey,

(18:13:41) svu: layout-per-window is VERY popular feature. You have to 
know it

I've reflected a bit more about all this and I have the following 
thoughts:

* if you don't do instant apply in the keyboard chooser window, keep the
   Cancel/OK buttons. I was wrong to suggest Close in that case. But:
   scroll to the currently selected one, so that you don't get the Acer
   Airkey V if you accidentally press OK.

* A toggle button might be more appropriate than a checkbox for the
   Preview function.

* The two-column layout selection can be simplified. Use a one-column
   list and a selection window, much like languages list in the
   Epiphany preferences.

* With the simplified layout, you have some room left for the extra
   keyboard switcher prefs. The 'separate group for each window' box,
   unchecked by default, makes the default-group-settings options active
   (compare the RepeatKeys checkbox in the accessibility prefs window).
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2004-12-16 14:48:57 UTC 
Created attachment 34900 [details]
IRC log
Comment 2 Reinout van Schouwen 2004-12-16 14:50:29 UTC 
Oops. Sorry for the spam...
Comment 3 Jody Goldberg 2004-12-16 15:56:26 UTC 
After some discussion I've changed my mind and agree with the idea of putting
the full tree into a popup.  That fits nicely with my hope of putting the kbdraw
keyboard preview there too, and having it match the current selection in the
_tree_ rather than the current settings in the server.  That would make it a
useful browsing tool.
Comment 4 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2005-01-05 17:29:51 UTC 
Actually it is already fixed in CVS now. So I am closing it...