Re: [Ayatana-dev] Unified inputmethod/keyboarlayout

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jesper Lundgren wrote on 24/09/11 20:27:
> ... Now if I want to add korean It becomes a bit more complicated 
> and confusing. If I add korean in keyboard layout I can only type 
> in english using that layout. To get Korean I need to go into 
> language and support and enable ibus and then add korean to ibus. 
> now I am suddenly doing two things I can switch between input 
> method if I want to use korean or chinese etc and then switch 
> keyboard layout when I want to use english/swedish.
> 
> Is there some way this could be unified to make it less confusing 
> and easier to switch between langauges? (possibly use ibus for 
> everything?) ...


This is the basic idea behind the unified keyboard menu.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KeyboardSettings#menu>

Unfortunately I have not had time yet to complete a draft of that
specification.

> as extra information I could add that windows also has similar 
> problem. For korean they have a separate inputmethod that in
> itself has english and korean so when switching to korean layout I
> first need to do a 3rd level switch to get it to be korean
> characters instead of latin. With all operating systems I have used
> I would say OSX and Opensolaris are the easiest ones for using
> multiple keyboard languages.
> 
> http://blogs.oracle.com/sunwg11nprg/entry/switching_keyboard_layout_in_solaris
>...


I've
> 
added that link to the wiki page.

Thanks
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mpt
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