On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:29:51 -0500, John Scipione wrote:
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Siarzhuk Zharski wrote:times. One solution can be utilizing the power of our Shortcuts Preflet for activating "keymap switch" in input_server for example. The input_server can maintain all configured keymap tables in memory and perform characters translation (and shortcut adjusting) on the fly without bothering with keymap files.Okay, lets come up with a default key combination and then make it configurable in the Shortcuts Preflet. Command (Alt) + Space is probably not very good. It should be something easy to push but not used by other apps. Any suggestions?
Keymap Switcher has following: a) Ctrl-Shift ; b) Alt-Shift; c) Shift-Shift; d) CapsLock; e) NumLock;Note that a) clashes with "yellow-tab move" modifier (try Ctrl-Shift and drag the tab of the window and you like it!), d) - e) never worked correctly because intersecting with default handling of those state-like buttons in the system. But note that Keymap Switcher was written for BeOS with the Windows keyboard switching functionality in mind - so most of those combinations are not so user-friendly as could. :-D
Special note for the CapsLock: that key was a most wanted candidate for switching in many user requests. By the way, there are workaround for Russian users using customized US-International keymap with Russian letters in CapsLock layer. But this solution is not team-sensitive as Keymap Switcher. Ah! Yes, I have forgot about one very significant feature of Keymap Switcher - it tracks the currently selected keymap for every process (Team) in the system and switch it on the fly when user moves between the windows.
By the way - the "Windows-Linux" modifier settings are not working with KEymapSwitcher because this setting is stored directly in Key_map file and overwritten to default one on every keymap switch.I have no idea how to solve that. Maybe instead of modifying the keymap the button could set a flag in input_server.
Anyway we overwrite the Key_map file - so we can to simply transfer corresponding settings from the old one. But I had no big intention to hack too deeply. So I just ignored this problem in Keymap Switcher.
-- Kind Regards, S.Zharski