[Differential] [Commented On] D4220: Add a basic SNI for keyboard layout

[Martin Gräßlin]

graesslin added a comment.


  In https://phabricator.kde.org/D4220#78887, @luebking wrote:
  
  > In https://phabricator.kde.org/D4220#78878, @graesslin wrote:
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  > > This change is about the opposite: supporting *changing* the layout. Not about notifying the layout change, that is something we already support for at least a year.
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  > Yes.
  >  Afaiu presently kwinD (;-P) is the only authority to alter the layout and the only one to provide a GUI for that as well?
  >  Clients can't do that - be it a virtual keyboard or a multilingual editor, be it im- or explicitly (text language recognition or a drop down menu)?
  
  
  they can. Any application can modify the keyboard layout as they wish. They just cannot modify the global layout.
  
  > What I meant to concern (and dared to be slightly OT in it) is that too much (interactive) features (and code) are dragged into a highly crucial process which becomes an increasingly monolithic-by-design GUI shell.
  
  That's why we use an SNI instead of doing the UI ourselves.
  
  If I understand you correctly you would like to see a dbus or Wayland interface provided by KWin to allow setting the layout. That's exactly what an SNI is.

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