DBus server for keyboard layouts

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 02 of October 2007, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> Hi all
>
> There is an idea to standardize keyboard switching public DBus
> interface. The idea and the interface is drafted in agreement between
> GNOME and KDE maintainers of the respective desktop subsystems (me and
> Andriy Rysin correspondingly). The goal is to provide interested apps
> with the interface allowing to analyze the current set of layouts and
> switch them. For example, office apps could automatically switch the
> layout according to the document/paragraph language. Dictionary
> frontends could do the similar thing.

 How exactly should that work when switching between applications? I don't 
think people would like it if their global keyboard layout changed "randomly" 
just because they happen to have a multi-language document open in a text 
editor.

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