[haiku-development] Re: Keymaps
- From: Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 23:28:48 +0200
Am 09.05.2012 22:46, schrieb John Scipione:
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx
<mailto:zharik@xxxxxx>> wrote:
Am 09.05.2012 01:35, schrieb John Scipione:
Secondly we need to integrate KeymapSwitcher into Haiku and
natively
support multiple keymaps. Apparently this is a must have
feature for
Cyrillic users, not just a nice to have, meaning they cannot
practically use Haiku without native keymap switching support.
We need
to add a Deskbar replicant to access the keymap settings. I'm
not sure
how KeymapSwitcher currently works, but, I imagine it already has
this.
KeymapSwitcher consists of two parts: input_server filter and
Deskbar replicant. The filter do the following: a) remap the
Cmd-based shortcuts from Cyrillics to Latin to let them works; b)
checks for keymap switching shortcut, and send the message to the
Deskbar replicant. The replicant a) receives the messages from the
filter, reload keymap file and call some undocumented call in the
input_server to apply this updated keymap; b) it also tracks the
currently active team and switches the keymaps in dependecy of it.
Can you also switch your keymap graphically using the replicant or do
you need to use the modifier?
Practically only the shortcut is used, because the keymaps are team
(task) sensitive - so using context menu of replicant will switch the
keymap of Deskbar but not the keymap of application user wants. ;-)
Do you get any kind of visual feedback when this happens?
The 2-letters code in the Deskbar replicant is changed.
I would imagine showing the flag as the replicant icon would be what
you'd want to do, say the flag of the Russian Federation for Russian,
the Old Glory for US, etc.
Hm... Which flag are you going to show on my non-standard German-based
Belarusian Phonetic keymap, for example? :-D Or how to distinguish
Cyrillic and Latin Belarusian keymaps?
I personally do not like using flags as identifier. IMO it looks
unprofessional and smells on Linux too much. Too obvious to pretend on
any signs of taste in such "design", IMO. ;-) So I prefer Win-like
2-letters codes. so both indication ways may be provided for user, I think.
And what is the modifier used to switch your keymap? Is it one way
only or can you switch backwards or forwards?
I do not think that we should incorporate current KeymapSwitcher in any
way - it was designed as workaround for BeOS but Haiku can support this
functionality in less perversive way. So in KS there are 3 hard-coded
combinations and was [not fully successfull] attempt to reuse CapsLock
and NumLock. The simply, one-way cyclic switching was used.
Can you change the modifiers used to switch your keymap? Does the
interface allow you to add/remove keymaps?
Have you tried to install the KS from optional packages and play a bit
to know more about it?
Does keymap switching ever happen automatically like when you are
Activate certain apps or is it triggered manually only?
Every team (application, process, task) has it's own active keymap, so
changing focus may automatically change the keymap too.
And again - we need _native_ solution but not just cleared variation of
the KemapSwitcher "perversy". ;-) As far as I remember, I have already
described possible way of implementation in the previous thread. The
only addition was made keymap view-sensitive.
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Kind Regards,
S.Zharski
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