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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1438162 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1438162

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1438162
   [osk] Touching "world" icon on the keyboard should cycle through all active keyboard layouts

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Title:
  Switching between more than two keyboards unnecessarily difficult

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have three keyboards installed - "English", "Chinese - Pinyin" and
  "Emoji".  Three might be considered a lot except that emoji is on a
  separate keyboard and everyone needs emoji, so this would affect any
  bilingual user.

  Simply tapping the globe icon on the keyboard will never allow you to
  select all three, it just toggles between the last two used.  You have
  to long press, then locate the keyboard entry you want, then tap it.

  The irritating thing is that I usually switch between English and
  Chinese, so a single tap mostly works.  Unless I inserted an emoji, in
  which case it switches to that instead.  So switching to Chinese often
  involves:

  * tap globe icon
  * notice it's wrong
  * long press globe icon
  * select Chinese

  But then, I want to re-establish English as my next favourite option,
  so before I actually type:

  * long press globe icon
  * select English
  * tap globe icon (to switch back to Chinese)

  ...and now I can type my Chinese, if I can even remember what I wanted
  to say after all of that.

  Most other keyboards just cycle through all the keyboards, and that's
  what a single tap should do here.

  I can imagine a better, if complicated system.  Imagine if instead of
  a menu, long pressing brought up a constellation surrounding the globe
  button.  Say my keyboards are English, German, Chinese and Emoji:

       DE   ZH
         \ /
   EN --- o --- Em

  Once I'd learned the layout, I could switch to any layout I want by
  swiping from the globe in the appropriate direction.

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