GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 654616
Add keyboard shortcut to switch layouts
Last modified: 2012-09-18 09:45:55 UTC
This is currently offered by the keyboard layout's options dialogue but it's the wrong place because: - we only have a limited amount of options available - it's a keyboard shortcut, but is in completely the wrong place - we don't control the shortcut, so it won't work as expected for merged Input Methods/keyboard layouts selection We should, in the short term, do what is necessary to make it configurable in the keyboard shortcuts instead, and remove that option from the region panel.
In the Region panel, we would show the keyboard shortcut to use to switch layouts (as we do for a11y shortcuts in the universal access panel).
The options are provided by X server. That is why the choice is limited. It is not "pick any combination" thing because the actual code behind different options is different, not uniform. Check the symbols/group file. Back in the days of gnome 1.x I thought about having general code for shortcuts, without using options provided by X. It turned to be highly non-trivial. I gave up.
Bastien, would just combo-box with the list of available (supported by X) shortcuts be good enough? I mean somewhere on the right from the layout list, below the "layout per window" group of radios. It would be the same list as in "Key(s) to change layout" group in the "Options" popup.
This is fixed now.