Desktop-wide input language info

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 15 octobre 2007 01:09, Changwoo Ryu a écrit :
> 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.

I'd say it's a policy decision, maybe at the WM level. But that's for
the technical people to decide

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot