[Bug 174948] Add setting to set/force a specific layout for specific programs

[Wolf Behrenhoff]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174948


Wolf Behrenhoff <wolf.behrenhoff at gmx.net> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Wolf Behrenhoff <wolf behrenhoff gmx net>  2011-02-14 10:02:34 ---
I support the wish. Let me add another usecase with KDE apps only. I am using
German and US English layouts.

German layout because I write lots of mails in German, so in KMail I have
German layout to be able to access umlauts. However for programming German
layout is bad because {, }, [, ], \, ', and ; are not easy to access. So my
Konsole and KDevelop always use US English layout. That is, if I type "ü", I
get a "[". Very convenient.

However, I always have to switch to the specific layout. Would be a lot easier
if one could switch the layout just once and let the application run under this
layout until one decides otherwise.

And for other apps, especially media or game apps, they sometimes assume z is
left of x (which isn't the case in German layout), thus the Stop, Pause, Play,
... keys which should lay in a row of keys next to each other (z,x,c,v, ...)
are suddenly distributed all over the keyboard. For these apps switching to US
layout usually cures this problem.

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